Petaluma Evans Vineyard Coonawarra Cabernet Blend 2015
96 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE & ANDREW CAILLARD MUSEUM RELEASE YELLOW LABEL EVANS VINEYARD CABERNET BLEND
- 96 POINT RATED ANDREW CAILLARD MW
- 96 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE THE REAL REVIEW
- 95 POINT RATED JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
- 90 POINT RATED MIKE BENNIE THE WINE FRONT
Vintage: | 2015 |
Source/Region: | Coonawarra, South Australia |
Grape Variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar up to 10 years |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 14.20 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.30 |
Rating: | 96 |
A brilliant, rich, deep dark purple colour. An elegant nose filled with rich dark berry fruits, overlaid with spice and cassis. The wine displays Coonawarra characters through and through. Plum and black currants are beautifully complemented by elegant spice and cedar with wonderful soft and abundant natural tannin. The wine is full and rich with Coonawarra elegance and suppleness and ripe, spicy fruit.
For the 2015 reds we used a combination of French oak, mainly from our long term favoured cooper, Dargaud et Jaegle, with smaller contributions from Quintessence and Seguin Moreau, all from forests in the centre of France. The wines went into barrel in mid-April and
matured for 20 months.When the wines were deemed to have enough oak maturation, the individual batches were pulled out of barrel and the blend decided upon. The blend was then put together in tank, before a gentle egg white fining (softens some rough edges and helps clarify the wine) and filtration to bottle in February 2017. The 2015 Petaluma Coonawarra, a single vineyard wine from our Evans Vineyard at the northern end of the famed terra rossa, is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot
96 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
Lots of purple remaining in this deep crimson colour, the bouquet shows toasty-oak laced dark berries, with a layer of very dark chocolate. It's very full-bodied and firm, rich and dense with masses of tannins providing formidable structure. A powerhouse of a cabernet. Long-term. (85% cabernet sauvignon, 15% merlot. Matured for 20 months in new French oak barrels)
96 Point Rated - Andrew Caillard
"An impressive Coonawarra Claret style. Medium bodied with outstanding complexity, richness of flavour and vigour"
95 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion
85/15% cabernet sauvignon/merlot, cold soaked then fermented on skins for 2 weeks, matured in new French oak for 20 months. The new oak impacts on both the flavour and texture. Needs time to integrate, as it surely will over the next 5+ years. Great potential.
90 Point Rated - Mike Bennie The Wine Front
Dark fruited, woody and nutty, choc-liquorice and salted plums, dark berries with cinnamon and clove liberally dusted over. It’s a heady, medium weight style with a sheath of gummy-sooty-cedary tannins woven over that sluice of drying fruit and spice character. Feels a bit baked and breathy for a prestigious wine at six years old, the finish a little brittle with tart, lemony tang too. Feels almost like it gets there, but either drink now, or in twenty years in full benign decay, I reckon.
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