Gold Medal Winning Red Mixed Dozen Includes 92 Point Rated Reds
Why to buy
- Produced By Drayton’s One Of Hunter Valley’s Pioneering Winemaking Families
- Darrell International Gold Medal Winning Victorian Cabernet Sauvignon
- Two Italian Boys Past Vintage Listed In Huon Hooke’s Top Sangiovese From Australia
- Niche Prev Vintage 93 Point Rated By Wine Showcase Magazine
- Bertons Award Winner Sommelier Wine Awards London
Tasting Notes
The Darrell Victorian Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Dark red with crimson hues in colour. The nose displays lifted pepper and spicy dark red cherry fruit character backed by top class oak. Dark red berries with a hint of cassis. A richly flavoured wine filled with juicy blackberry and blue berry fruit and top class but subtle oak backing it up, giving the wine a complex tannin backbone with a smooth silky palate.
Two Italian Boys Sangiovese 2015
Crimson red, Rainforest, dark cherry and savoury spice aroma’s with complimented oak characters. Flavours of ripe cherry and plum with nuances of strawberries and cream. Finishes soft and intriguing with well-structured tannin.
Niche Merlot 2019
Vibrant crimson with red hue. Aromas of freshly crush black fruit, chocolate and a mild touch of oak and spice. The palate is round and generous. A succulent mid palate shows lovely plum and some cherry flavours with chocolate creating a rounder finish whilst being perfectly interwoven between natural fruit acid and tannin. Some spice ensures a fresh and lively finish.
Watershed The Farm Margaret River Classic Red 2016
Produced from premium Margaret River grape varieties, this medium body wine displays plums, herbs and chocolate with notes of liquorice and finishing with a soft, round and velvety texture.
Draytons Family Bellevue Heritage Grand Reserve Hunter Valley Shiraz 2016
This Shiraz is amber red in colour with an attractive fruit aroma of ripe plums, blackberries and subtle oak. The palate is medium bodied, yet exhibits full spicy, peppery flavours with a soft, round tannin finish. This wine has an excellent balance of acid and fruit it is a great representation from a vintage regarded as one of the best from the Hunter Valley.
Berton Vineyards Foundstone Merlot 2019
This Merlot has a deep youthful colour, with expressive aromas of plums, blackberries and violet. The palate has a velvety texture with generous flavours of sour cherries, plums and fragrant herbs with a hint of vanillin oak.
Technical Notes
The Darrell Victorian Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Sourced from premium vineyards across Victoria’s premium viticultural sub regions. The fruit was crushed then underwent cold macerating. Fermented in open top fermenters with regular pump over’s to extract both colour and tannin. Following another week of maceration the dry free run is drained to tank. The skins are then pressed and the pressings transferred to the same tank, the wine is then racked with select parcels going into barrel. The wine is aged in older oak then bottled after maturation with minimal fining and filtration.
Niche Merlot 2019
The fruit was sourced from premium vineyards located in South Australia. We picked in the cool of night when the fruit had reached its optimum ripeness then fermented on skins in static potters and rotary fermenters for a period of seven days to retain as much of the luscious natural fruit flavour as possible. Warm temperatures at the early stages of fermentation along with ta short period of post ferment maceration helped develop soft fleshy fruit and tannins while helping build structure. Following the pressing process, clarification and final blending the fruit was matured with select parcels having contact with old French oak.
Watershed The Farm Margaret River Classic Red 2016
The fruit used in this blend is sourced from our own vineyards in the Wallcliff and Jindong sub regions of Margaret River.
77.5% Merlot 22.5% Cabernet Franc
Draytons Family Bellevue Heritage Grand Reserve Hunter Valley Shiraz 2016
Open tank fermentation 9 days on skins. Clarification after malolactic fermentation Maturation in American barriques
Berton Vineyards Foundstone Merlot 2019
Our local reds began coming in on 17th March, rather late compared to the past 8-10 years. With the lateness of the vintage, growers found it hard to reach the desired sugar specifications however with the cooler conditions looming, the decision was made to pick on fruit and seed ripeness on a parcel by parcel basis, ensuring the best possible quality was maintained.Fermented in stainless steel vertical fermenters for 4-6 days at temperatures between 27C and 29C on french untoasted& toasted oak chips. Wine was then pressed at 1 baume via screw press into stainless steel storage tanks and left to ferment until dry, then racked into stainless steel storage vessel with French oak staves and cultured malolactic bacteria. Once secondary fermentation was complete the wine was clarified via centrifuge into stainless steel storage.
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