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95
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Tasting Notes
Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard brings together a unique combination of expert winemaking from specialists of the Napa Valley and the McLaren Vale; a long legacy of the Hickinbotham family and one of the best vineyard sites in South Australia, producing wines of incredible value amongst the great Australian Wines on the market.
Deep, dark and molten, it’s a black wine of considerable sexy oak and power. Seduction, weight, silken tannins. Right bank Bordeaux, but with a McLaren Vale mid palate. Lots of oak but not unbalanced. The flavour is abundant for such moderate alcohol. High class.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Cabernet Franc
Vintage: 2021
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia, McLaren Vale
Alcohol %: 14.0%
Cellaring: 10-15 Years
Scores
95 / 100"Chris Carpenter and Pete Fraser; the Burt Bacharach and Hal David of wine. Chris does the Bordeaux varieties, and Pete the Rhone. I say a little prayer for both of them. Anyway, what the world needs now, is more excellent Cabernet Franc. Blackcurrant, dark raspberry, a little dried flower and herb perfume, mint, iodine, creamy chocolate and spiced cedar oak, also a dash of paprika. It’s dense and packed with graphite tannin, a lovely ferrous edge to it, tobacco, red and black fruit, deep and rich, but also fragrant to close with chocolate and pencilly tannin. Serious wine here, the highlight being the integration of (plentiful) oak and fruit, and a superb muscular tannin profile."
- Gary Walsh
