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97
/ 100
Huon Hooke -
96
/ 100
Gary Walsh
Red
Classification
Cabernet Blend
Variety
2010
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, Clare Valley
Region
14.0%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
97 / 100"Vanilla and chocolate overlying rich ripe fruit and toasted nuts. Lush fruit but also savoury, the tannins still firm and assertive, bold and young. Arguably still needs more time. A stunning wine: outstanding."
- Huon Hooke
96 / 100
"Oh those tannins, you just don’t get ’em like that much in this county. Dark fruit, iron, mint/aniseed, pencils, perhaps a little panforte. It’s only medium bodied but the strength and control, the mouth-feel and the firm fine graphite tannin, clean acid balance and dryness of it is just so damned impressive. Superb balance and length. Structurally up with top Bordeaux, I reckon, yet uniquely Australian. Beautifully and sensitively made. A great wine."
- Gary Walsh
Tasting Notes
This mature dry grown vineyard with substantial plantings of century old vines lies on well draining red-brown chocolaty loams over shale. Yields are minute with very high concentration and seed content. This partly explains the “particularity” of the Wendouree style. The quality of the fruit is outstanding with incredible sugar/acidity/flavour balance. In many respects the Cabernet Malbec is an old fashioned wine, yet it articulates vineyard character and maintains an unbroken continuity of style rarely found on the contemporary wine scene. The Malbec component – which derives from four blocks planted between 1898 and 1960 – provides complexity and interest. This is a profoundly individual wine with intense bright fruit, underlying maturation notes and firm but pronounced vice-like tannins structures.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity