Pride of the Fleurieu Cabernet Sauvignon
Country: Australia Region: South Australia
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage: 2022
Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Dandelion Vineyards
Description:
Dandelion Vineyards is a unique fusion of vineyards and vignerons.
Our wines represent decades of experience, blending the fruit of our heirloom vineyards with the finest traditions of artisan winemaking. Dandelion Vineyards is a combination of old vineyards, a young winemaker, and a couple of mates to help out in-between, which we believe makes for the ideal winery.
Our vineyards are our family, their wines our children. Serious stuff, certainly. Proper fun, absolutely. The lifelong search to appreciate and understand the essence of wine, its terroir, leads us on a vinous treasure hunt, following the Dandelion’s Wishing Clock if you will, that always inspires.
This Pride of the Fleurieu Cabernet was grown in the family's pride and joy, overlooking the Finniss River wetlands, Tony Brooks and Dr. Prof. Barbara Santich's Stranger's Reach vineyard, cooled by Great Southern Ocean and Lake Alexandrina where low rainfall and deep alluvial soils encourage Cabernet to 'populate or perish'.
Selected bunches were hand picked by family and friends in the 4th week of April and gently crushed into open top fermenters. After 14 days fermentation the wine was then basket pressed into some new but predominantly older French Oak barrels for 18 months maturation and then bottled with minimal winemaking artifact, to capture the essence of the vineyard and will reward cellaring and decanting.
Tasting Note:
Spiced cherry chutney, plum preserves, dried tobacco, cedar and a chocolaty oak influence lead on this expressive Cab. Powerful, drying tannins dominate the palate, but the plump fruit's there, too. Rich protein is a requirement if drinking now. Could cellar until 2030
Food Matches: Beef / Lamb / Casseroles / Turkey
