Cabernet Sauvignon

Another great Cabernet from Leigh Eldredge's high-altitude vineyard.
Colour is dark brick red with magenta hues. Bouquet of dark berry fruits with a hint of smokiness and spice.
Promises offered by colour and aroma are delivered with great depth and length of fruit flavours with a spice accent that is followed by fine grain tannins and a clean finish.

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Deep ruby in colour, with a classic Cabernet aromas of cassis and blackcurrants. The palate is silky smooth, awash with riots of blackberries and cassis, the finish is beautifully balanced between fruit and oak. One to be enjoyed now or cellared for a few years yet. Another winner from Pondalowie

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"Serious, balanced, rich Cabernet, marvellously dense, a perfect example of why Clare is such a special growing environment: the sun has ripened the grapes to their max, but the cool conditions have preserved a mouthwatering freshness. It still needs a few years' age, but if you like your reds thick and strong you can lay into it now. The mixture of leaf and blackcurrant in its smell is Bordeaux-like, and the dark blackcurrant fruit, lightened by mint yet hemmed in by tannin and acidity, is reminiscent of a young Pauillac. If that's not high praise, I don't know what is."
Oz Clarke (2009 Oz Clarke Wine Buying Guide)
Tim Adams has taken the best Clare Cabernet fruit he can find and beefed it up with 11% Malbec The addition of the Malbec adds to the complexity of the palate which is dominated by fresh blackcurrant and rhubarb aromas and flavours. Twenty-four months in French oak provides spice and balance to this full-bodied style. I will cellaring well for up to ten years.

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A top class Barossa Cabernet from one of our favourite producers which is drinking beautifully now. Rich blackcurrant fruit, superbly balanced oak and a long, rich finish.

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" Doug Bowen makes some of the most elegant wines in Australia." Tim Atkin (The Observer)
At Bowen Estate there are 12 individual Cabernet vineyards, which combined produce our 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wine. Each vineyard is hand pruned using an arched cane system pioneered in Coonawarra by Bowen Estate. This system allows ultimate control over quality, ensuring consistency over vintages.
All vineyards are picked separately during the harvest to assess quality and are individually made, finally being blended prior to bottling.
This is a wine of vibrant colour, ripe fruit with hints mulberry, blackberry and dusty oak tannins. Palate medium bodied with good weight and abundance of fruit flavours finishing with velvet smooth tannins. The use of both French and Russian oak gives this wine great complexity and depth whilst showing integrated elegant fruit characters.


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A great Cabernet, probably the Barossa's best. It proves the old adage that great winemakers make great wines in tougher years as well as in standout vintages. The various individual vineyard parcels were kept separate and underwent a rigorous selection process before the final blend was assembled.
It's about time that Rockford's top class Cabernet Sauvignon moved from out of the shadow of their icon Basket Press Shiraz and this is the vintage that should do it!

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Colour is crimson with a purple hue. Aromas of chocolate, raspberry and leafy cabernet with a dried thyme influence from the merlot. Palate is medium bodied but mouth filling and full of flavour. The initial sweet fruit flavours develop into more savoury mocha/briary characters with hints of black olives. Finish has good length.

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