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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2026 (based on 16 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.6 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by RobertLA on 10/17/2020 & rated 92 points: Nice Cabernet. In the drinking window but would benefit for another year or two. Tannins are still not quite there. Definitely need at least one hour decant (1194 views) | | | Tasted by Moloko on 9/12/2020 & rated 91 points: New wood aroma, quite sweet oak nose. Palate comorises of quite sweet black fruits with a wash of still quite harsh peppery tannin. With food this is a wonderful wine in a great drinking point. Not sure it will be drinking as well as the primary fruit dissipates, so drink over the next few years. (964 views) | | | Tasted by Macenn77 on 3/14/2020 & rated 91 points: In a really nice place, but still plenty left. Drink in the next couple years. (1286 views) | | | Tasted by Pakiwicat on 3/2/2020 & rated 98 points: 2 March 2020 had bottle with Marls - One of the best. No faults drinking superbly over several hours. Little sign of age and still nice fruit tannin balance.
The wine looks inky colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry. It tastes like fig. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity. (1117 views) | | | Tasted by Barvin on 2/1/2019 & rated 90 points: Superb (1633 views) | | | Tasted by Andrew67 on 11/30/2018 & rated 92 points: Good balance, structured, youthful. Perhaps not a great wine, but definitely good drinking. It will improve for a while. (1022 views) | | | Tasted by Zorg on 8/11/2017 & rated 90 points: Very good but way too young, will leave my last bottle for at least 5 years. (2009 views) | | | Tasted by stayhappy21 on 10/31/2015 & rated 88 points: Tasted this during Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate's Matter of Taste @ The Grand Hyatt, Singapore.
A very good wine in its own right, this wine should do a lot better when paired with steaks and meaty dishes. Loads of blueberries and plums, this wine also give out hints of chocolate and mint.
Still young and has not reached its full potential yet. (3276 views) | | | Tasted by Themarts on 6/29/2015 & rated 80 points: Disappointing (3409 views) | | | Tasted by Omar Khayyam on 6/17/2015 & rated 86 points: Very good cab, still very primary and berry driven with some oak treatment, but not without a point of balance that I enjoyed with some grilled lamb. I think this has a few years ahead of it but is just as enjoyable right now. But you need to pair it with a steak to deal with quite noticeable tannins at this stage. (3055 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 5/24/2014 & rated 87 points: Tasted at a D'Arenberg merchant event. Very dark ruby with blackish core. Expressive nose of black current and pine tree. Again quite acidic entry on the palate but enough fruit stuffing to make it drinkable. It lacks balance now but may be time can mend that since it is a young pure CabSav. (4428 views) | | | Tasted by LindsayM on 5/19/2014: - Purple color. It's balanced with a medium/full body. Round texture with a long finish - Tried this wine over 2 nights and the extra time certainly helped integrate and fruit and tannins much better after 24 hours (2723 views) | | | Tasted by LindsayM on 5/18/2014: After 5 years its still has super rich fruits on the nose but the tannins are still dominating the finish , maybe a few more years needed to balance out the wine (1904 views) | | | Tasted by JerM on 3/8/2014: (Tasting@d'Arenberg) Rich, with young capsicums, and a sweet nose. Blueberries, cassis, cigarbox cedars, juicy with sweet spice. Clay and poster colour on the finish, and more classy bluefruits, and glycerol sweetness. too young! (1996 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 10/3/2013: six nations tasting - (pyrmont wharf, sydney): funky black fruit then extremely tight and robust tannin. Needs a lot of time. (2877 views) | | | Tasted by peternelson on 7/24/2013 & rated 91 points: Patina: tobacco, black plum, sweet underbrush, plush, soft with exotic spices/eucalyptus. Excellent, still very young. (1257 views) |
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The WINEFRONT (5/8/2013)
(d’Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Halliday
Halliday Wine Companion (2/11/2012)
(d'arenberg the coppermine road cabernet sauvignon) Subscribe to see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, July/August 2011, IWC Issue #157
(d'Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon McLaren Vale) Subscribe to see review text. |
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One of the most significant wineries in McLaren Vale founded in 1912. The winemaking processes of the past have been maintained, capturing the unique small-batch character of the wines and the true flavour of the McLaren Vale region. All grapes, red and white, are basket-pressed. The reds are still traditionally fermented with the grape skins (caps) submerged in open wax-lined concrete fermenters utilising the age-old technique of foot-treading.
Winemaking duties are carried out by fourth-generation Chester d’Arenberg Osborn. In June 2004 Chester’s father, d’Arry was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his contributions to the wine industry and to the McLaren Vale region. After more than 65 consecutive vintages d’Arry is very proud of his achievements in creating an internationally recognised wine brand commonly known as the ‘Red Stripe’ due to the distinctive diagonal red stripe that adorns the label. d’Arenberg’s art of being different extends to a range of fortified and dessert wines, which have legendary status worldwide.2009 d'Arenberg Cabernet Sauvignon The Coppermine RoadThe Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 McLaren Vale, Cabernet Sauvignon
The Name
Coppermine Road runs parallel to our very best Cabernet vineyard in McLaren Vale, just metres from the winery, cellar door and restaurant. Planted to an almost extinct clone, this vineyard rarely yields greater than one tonne to the acre.
The Vintage
Sufficient winter rains ensured good sub soil moisture and set up the vines well with healthy canopies. Early summer was very cool with only three days above 30°C until late in January. There was a string of days above 40°C in late January which caused some loss of yield of the final crop.
The mild weather that followed ensured that ripening was stress free and grapes showed good levels of natural acidity and balanced tannins.
The Winemaking
Small batches of grapes are crushed gently and then transferred to five tonne headed down open fermenters. These batches remain separate until final blending.
Foot treading is undertaken two thirds of the way through fermentation. The wine is then basket pressed and transferred to a mixture of new and used French oak barriques to complete fermentation. The barrel ferments are aged on lees, there is no racking until final blending and no fining or filtration.
The Characteristics
The nose exhibits classic Cabernet aromatics of black currant leaf, violets and cigar box with an interesting twist of cooking spice and mustard seed.
These lovely savoury notes are followed through onto the palate but swept along by an underlying sweet blackcurrant and mulberry fruitiness that builds as the wine continues to evolve in your glass.
The initially cedary tannins, start early and give the wine an incredible line. An intriguing fennel note accompanies the chalky tannins that are picked up on the finish, which is long and lingering.
Cellaring Potential
With bottle age, the wine will become more harmonious and gain complex characters of chocolate, truffle, cigar box and earth. The considerable structure and depth will ensure that the fruit characters will develop over time revealing more complexity and providing immense interest. This wine is best stored in an environment free of direct sunlight and with consistent temperatures ranging between 10°C and 15°C
Harvest dates25 Feb - 16 Apr
Alcohol 14.5%
Residual sugar 2.8 g/l
Titratable acid 7.4
pH 3.41
Oak maturation 18 months
Chief Winemaker Chester Osborn
Senior Winemaker Jack WaltonCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonAustralia Wine Australia (Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation) | Australian Wines (Wikipedia)South Australia South Australian Wine Industry Association | South Australian Wines (Wikipedia)Fleurieu Fleurieu Wineries & Cellar Doors (southaustralia.com)McLaren Vale McLaren Vale (McLaren Vale Grape, Wine and Tourism)
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