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2012 Heartland Directors' Cut Cabernet Sauvignon
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2012 is a year of exceptional quality. Late September frosts reduced yields between 10 and 40% depending on the vineyard. A long and relatively cool ripening season allowed for full development of the fruit flavours. The wines retain their natural acidity while conveying the full range of fruit flavours and deep colours we want. 2012 is the best vintage in a long time.
Only the finest Cabernet vineyards in Langhorne Creek contributed to Directors’ Cut, including Wenzel, Jenkins and Licorice Block. The fruit was harvested at night to retain freshness. Initial skin contact was followed by 7 days of cool fermentation with our Rhône isolate yeast and hand-plunging three times daily. Maturation then occurred in new oak hogsheads (both French and American) for approximately 14 months.
2012 is a year of exceptional quality. Late September frosts reduced yields between 10 and 40% depending on the vineyard. A long and relatively cool ripening season allowed for full development of the fruit flavours. The wines retain their natural acidity while conveying the full range of fruit flavours and deep colours we want. 2012 is the best vintage in a long time. Alc 14.8%;
95 points
First release of a Directors' Cut Cabernet Sauvignon. It pulls the curtain on fruit and oak flavour of excellent dimension. Blackcurrant, eucalypt, cedar wood and toast. The flavours come at you in dry, tight, fine-grained waves. The word succulent keeps springing to mind.
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