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NOTES
The Chapel Hill Winery Cabernet Sauvignon is a deliberately crafted to showcase the attractive and distinctive attributes of the variety in each region. The company policy of sourcing fruit from these two premium viticultural regions not only guarantees the wine’s consistency and increases it’s complexity but importantly, ensures that it articulately exhibits Cabernet’s rich and diverse flavour spectrum.
TASTING NOTES
Deep crimson colour. Aromas of intense violet, cedar and chocolate, a background of mint and turkish delight, awe inspiring complexity, aromatic and persistent. This wine exudes an evocative array of characters, blackcurrant and beetroot, cloves and roasted chestnut flavours all mingle harmoniously within the wine, the middle palate is augmented by seamless, subtle influences of oak. Sweet fruit still dominates the palate after an extended oak maturation, the flavour profile is underpinned by the subtle and seamless integration of the spicey oak and the sumptuous finely grained tannin structure.
REVIEWS
Dense crimson-purple; an equally dense, chewy, full-bodied palate with blackberry, dark chocolate and mocha all intermingling; the tannins, while substantial, are ripe. Screwcap. 14% alc. Rating 91 Drink 2016 James Halliday Tasted December 2008
Rich and meaty, its dark, concentrated aromas of plums, cherries and blackcurrant are backed by sweet cedar/vanilla oak and undertones of drid herbs. Smoth and sumptuous, it's rich and ripe, with a long, creamy palate of drk plum and berry flavous integrated with firm, powdery tannins. There's a hint of mint and eucalypt, with lingeing undertones of mocha and coffee-grounds-like oak. It has avoided the over-ripe flavours and should develop over the short to medium term - 89 Points, Jeremy Oliver, The Australian Wine Annual 2008
AWARDS
2005 Warren Winiarski Trophy - The"Best Cabernet Sauvignon in Show" at the IW&SC in London, 2007
2005 Gold - Class 73, Melbourne 2007 Wine Show, 2007
2005 Gold - Class 53, Royal Queensland Wine Show, 2007
2005 4 Stars - June 2007, Winestate Magazine, 2007
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