

Vintage: | 2013 |
Source/Region: | McLaren Vale, South Australia |
Grape Variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon |
Cellaring: | Drink now and can cellar for up to 10 years |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 14.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.30 |
Deep garnet purple with crimson hue. Intense aromas of cassis, black cherries, and mulberries with slight touches of five spice, sandalwood, and mint leaves. Quite a big powerful example of Cabernet Sauvignon due to the powerful combination of fruit and oak. Full bodied and dense, it's generously layered with rich texture and silky mouth feel, combined with cassis, blueberry, game and spicy oak flavours.
Sourced from an old single vineyard site in the McLaren Vale ranges on what they call the golden miles, which I think the best fruit comes from. Soils are red and have high ironstone content, they are also quite bony (stony) so crop levels and low and fruit intensity is awesome!
The fruit was hand picked over a week period as requested by the winemaker which was easy to do due to the perfect vintage conditions and gives each individually batch some distinction although it was all from the same vineyard block. The wine was hand crafted in small open top fermenters and had extended time on skins when fermenting to add further complexity and fruit characters. Ferments were relatively cold and were pumped over by hand twice daily. A small portion of the wine was fermented in barrel to add some oak complexity early on. The wine was then matured in a mixture of seasoned French and new American oak for 18 months prior to final blends being done and bottling.
Drinking perfectly now, although it is clear with so much natural fruit if cellared well, will last for around 10 years.
At The China Wine & Spirit Awards Best Value 2016 The Songlines Basket Pressed McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Outpointed the following big names;
Howard Park Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 ($125 J.H 96 Pts)
Wolf Blass White Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 ($50 J.H 95 Pts)
Howard Park Leston Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 ($46 J.H 96 Pts)
At The China Wine & Spirit Awards 2016 The Songlines Basket Pressed McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Outpointed the following:
Levantine Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 ($80 J.H 95 Pts)
Jack Estate Mythology Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 ($55 J.H Pts)
Chateau Tanunda 50 Year Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 ($75)
Steven Spurrier - Decanter Magazine
"Songlines has a marvellous intensity, with none of the heaviness of some Australian Icon wines, a superb wine, perhaps the Latour of the McLaren Vale.”
Double Gold Medal
China Wine & Spirit Awards Best Value 2016
Gold Medal
China Wine & Spirits 2016
Award Winner
International Wine Challenge London 2016
San Francisco International Wine Challenge 2016
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