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Forest HillBlock 5 Cabernet Sauvignon
Dry, Full Bodied style of Cabernet Sauvignon
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Dry, Full Bodied style of Cabernet SauvignonHand-picked from the selected small sections of our best old vines. Chilled, hand sorted at the winery and destemmed into open fermenters. Initial cold soak and then inoculated. The fermenters were pumped over with aeration twice a day or hand plunged depending on taste and ferment stage. The wine was then basket pressed to French barriques (~25% new) once primary was complete for its Malo-lactic fermentation, allowing a soft integration of the grape and oak tannins. The wine was blended with no fining and bottled after 15 months maturation.
Hand-picked from the selected small sections of our best old vines. Chilled, hand sorted at the winery and destemmed into open fermenters. Initial cold soak and then inoculated. The fermenters were pumped over with aeration twice a day or hand plunged depending on taste and ferment stage. The wine was then basket pressed to French barriques (~25% new) once primary was complete for its Malo-lactic fermentation, allowing a soft integration of the grape and oak tannins. The wine was blended with no fining and bottled after 15 months maturation.
Full bodied red wines have a noticeably textural mouthfeel with bold, complex flavours. Often deeply coloured.
Dry wines have no trace of sweetness at all.
- TypeCabernet Sauvignon
- Size750mL
- RegionGreat Southern
- Current Vintage2014
- Standard Drinks8.3
- Alcohol Volume14.0%
- CountryAustralia
- StateWestern Australia
- Brand NameForest Hill
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
Gold – Halliday Cabernet Challenge.
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2014
96 points
Made from the best fruit from the oldest ('75) plantings, hand-picked, destemmed to closed fermenters, with twice daily aerative pumpovers temperature controlled to 25 degrees C, matured in new and used French barriques for 18 months. As expected, a high quality cabernet in every way; only medium-bodied, but beautifully nuanced and poised, blackcurrant fruit, bay leaf, oak and fine - almost silky - tannins.
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