Dandelion Vineyards - Pride of the Fleurieu Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 (750ml)

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Producer	Dandelion Vineyards
Country	Australia
Region	Fleurieu
Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage	2021
Sku	117727
Size	750ml
ABV	14.50%

Dandelion Vineyards Description

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Background
Dandelion Vineyards is a unique fusion of vine
and vigneron. Our wines represent decades of
experience, blending the fruit of our heirloom
vineyards with the finest traditions of artisan
winemaking. Dandelion Vineyards are proven
plantings that have stood the test of time. Our
wish is to nurture the unique character of these
vineyards and express their terroir in our wines.
Capturing variety, vintage and vineyard requires
an enlightened approach and although our
growers see the Devil in every weed, we
encourage the humble Dandelion amongst the
vines as they suppress winter weeds, provide
mulch in the summer, and proffer their Wishing
Clocks in spring to blow off to make our wish
come true.
This Pride of the Fleurieu Cabernet was grown in
the family’s pride and joy, overlooking the Finniss
River wetlands, Tony Brooks and Prof. Barbara
Santich’s dry grown Stranger’s Reach vineyard
cooled by the 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 third week of April and gently
crushed into open top fermenters. After 8 days
fermentation the wine was then basket pressed
into some new but predominately older French
Oak Barriques for 18 months maturation and
then bottled with minimal winemaking artifact
to capture the essence of the vineyard and will
reward cellaring and decanting.
Vale Evelyn (gran) Phillips nee Walker vintage
1921-2010.

Tasting Notes
Colour
Red-black-purple and darkly lustrous.
Nose
Blackberries from the cane underlined by
a quicksilver waft of vanilla. Rounded, ripe
and yet true to cabernet sauvignon’s DNA.
Lifted aromatics of hardy herbs and tobacco
leaf; hints of minerals, lime and earth.
Palate
Fruit and tannin in harmony. Blackberry and
cassis with background acidity. Structure
and length. The faintest lick of finely
tuned oak spice at the front palate. The
core of blackberry fruit is well-mannered,
with multitudinous and graphitic tannins
swimming effortlessly in at palate’s
end. A big mouthful of red wine, but so
structured as to remain poised and polite.
Drink
Your grandest cote de bouef cooked rare
over vine embers; or - if time and/or vine
cuttings be in short supply - the humblest
butcher’s sausage baked in the oven.
Duck fat chips with the former, mashed
potato with truffle oil with the latter.
Specifics
Composition: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol: 14.5%
TA: 7.12 g/L
pH: 3.41
Latitude 35°24’23” South
Longitude 138°49’26” East
Altitude 80 Feet = 25 Metres