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Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 93.8 points

  • Incredibly balanced wine, wonderful dark lush black fruits, cassis, crushed violets, unsmoked tobacco, cedar, savoury spices, bay leaves and forest pine needles. The palate is impeccably structured with dark lush fruit and savoury spices filling the palate, there is this incredible tannin quality along with energy and persistence, the mid-palate layered and textured, you don’t need to work with this wine it works for you, everything is there coming together, this is really just a baby. I only had one bottle so had to try it but wow such a fantastic producer.97+++

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  • Tasted 19/10/23. Nose and taste very connected. Fine tannins. Great balance. Good finish. Excellent and will be another 10+ years

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  • Pronounced nose of blackberry, cassis, oak spice
    Flavours of black fruit, black plum, rich black plum, tobacco, cedar
    Great balance and intensity, very good length. Amazing complexity and will get better with age

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  • Bright, intense garnet/ crimson. Really fresh nose, red fruits, savoury and really bright, leafy intensity, perfectly ripened, no discernible oak.
    Palate follows. Very concentrated, but savoury and crisp. Immaculate balance, really emphasises how good Yarra Valley cab belnds are when on song. Silky and long, mouthfilling intensity, but finishes clean, fine tannins.
    Just superb!

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  • 44% Cabernet sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 16% Cabernet franc, 6% Malbec, 4% Petit verdot
    from vineyard planted in 1971 on sandy clay loams, dry farmed
    organically.
    Fermented on skins for 14 days.
    Aged 22 months: 25% in large format oak (1500L or larger),
    30% in new barriques (225L), rest in 2-5 year old barriques.
    Bottled with minimal fining and filtration.
    13.3% Abv.
    Background: Founded by John and Marli Middleton in 1971.
    Owners: David and Victoria Middleton, with children Claire, Sam and Hugh.
    Winemaker: Sam Middleton

    A(ccuracy)=2: Med deep garnet. Mellow supple blend.
    B(alance)=3: Rich fruit with fine structure.
    C(omplexity)=2: Dark berries, plum, licorice, earth.
    D(epth)=2: Round mouthfeel. Full length and persistent finish.

    Wine Tally Score [2,3,2,2] = 9/10

    Long and even cool climate Cab blend.

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