Evenfall Cabernet Sauvignon
2022
Cabernet Sauvignon
Tamar Valley, Tasmania
Rare cool climate Cabernet Sauvignon
Description
Evenfall estate grown Cabernet Sauvignon (historically Elmslie) in the West Tamar Valley was hand picked and destemmed to open top stainless steel vessels for fermentation. Hand plunged and pumped over as required during ferment, followed by gentle pressing off skins to tank for malolactic fermentation, with careful maturation in oak for 14 months to follow. The bones of this wine lie in the ground of the vineyard that surrounds us and is a relic of some of Tasmania’s first Cabernet Sauvignon plantings. With such a resource, the discipline of making has really been about letting the fruit tell its own truth - from fresh cassis and blackberry, through to firmer, damson stone fruit and earthy tones of rich tobacco and damp earth. This is not a wine in a hurry and will match any fuller-flavoured and more firmly-textured dishes like beef or game.
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Halliday Wine Companion
93%
Estate-grown cabernet sauvignon from the Elmslie vineyard in the West Tamar Valley, matured in French oak (10% new) for 14 months. Crimson in the glass with aromas of blackberry, black cherry and blackcurrant pastile with hints of licorice, cedar, tobacco, clove, ginger, black olive, dried herbs, tea leaves, blackcurrant leaf and earth. There's a nice composition on the palate, fine gravelly tannins and a nice cassis and kirsch tail that fades slowly.
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Wine Details
Tamar Valley
2022
Red Wine
Cabernet Sauvignon
750mL
13.5%
