2003 CLARE VALLEY WATERVALE CABERNET SAUVIGNON

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STYLE—
A full bodied yet balanced wine of immense drinkability.

VITICULTURE —
The fruit for this wine is sourced off our winery vineyard. Soil profile is brown to red loam over limestone. Yield averaged 2.5 tonnes/acre.

VINIFICATION—
Hot,dry conditions throughout vintage prompted earlier ripening and produced Cabernet styles with lifted mulberry and herbaceous components. The grapes were harvested in late March. Fermented in static red fermenters on skins through to dryness and then basket pressed. Matured in a selection of aged American oak hogsheads for 24 months. Alcohol 14%v/v.

TASTING NOTES —
Made from 100% Watervale Cabernet Sauvignon. Spice, mulberry and herbaceous aromas are evident on the nose. Robust, “sweet” berry fruits intertwine with fine tannins and well integrated charry oak. This full bodied style is a result of basket pressing, producing a balanced wine with length and depth of flavour. Cellaring potential of 5-7 years.

AWARDS & REVIEWS —

1 Silver Medal
2 Bronze Medals

Greg Duncan Powell, Sydney Morning Herald,
Good Living Wine Guide 27/6/06
Ben Canaider, The Age, Epicure 27/6/06
“Some wines are conceived at marketing meetings, blended at winemakers’ meetings and strategised at sales meetings. This generous cabernet is just the opposite. It smells, tastes and feels as if it has been made by one person. That gives it what the others can’t: character and honesty.”

The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2007
Ralph Kyte-Powell & Huon Hooke
93 Points  4½ Stars

Correspondence -
PO Box 977, North Adelaide 5006, South Australia.
T- 08) 8344 4079 F - 08) 8342 1379
Winery -
Leasingham / Mintaro Rd, Leasingham, Clare Valley 5452, South Australia.
T - 08) 8843 0199 F - 08) 8843 0299