Brand & SonsLast Sunday Drive Coonawarra Cabernet Franc 2021
About this product
A fresh palate with abundant juicy blue fruits and classy acid and tannins. The rich taste slides through the mouth with a delicate balance of spice and mulberry which hold on leaving you savouring for the next glass.
The Story Behind the Name...
Summer ’73 and a rusty bulldozer rumbled into life, signalling the end of “The colony” and a distinct lowering of the Coonawarra skyline.
For almost 90 years, families had flocked to Coonawarra to collect the bountiful fruits which grew on the famed red Terra Rossa soil. But as the favour of wine grew, the last fruit trees were felled and on a summer’s day in ’73, the last orchard was demolished.
The end of an era, the last of the blockers and the last Sunday drive.
A fresh palate with abundant juicy blue fruits and classy acid and tannins. The rich taste slides through the mouth with a delicate balance of spice and mulberry which hold on leaving you savouring for the next glass.
The Story Behind the Name...
Summer ’73 and a rusty bulldozer rumbled into life, signalling the end of “The colony” and a distinct lowering of the Coonawarra skyline.
For almost 90 years, families had flocked to Coonawarra to collect the bountiful fruits which grew on the famed red Terra Rossa soil. But as the favour of wine grew, the last fruit trees were felled and on a summer’s day in ’73, the last orchard was demolished.
The end of an era, the last of the blockers and the last Sunday drive.
- TypeCabernet Franc
- Size750ML
- RegionCoonawarra
- Current Vintage2021
- Alcohol Volume14.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameBrand & Sons
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyMedium Bodied
Gold [Best In Class] - 2023 Limestone Coast Wine Show. Gold - 2022 Australian Small Winemakers Show. Silver - 2023 National Cool Climate Wine Show. Bronze - 2022 Royal Adelaide Wine Show. Bronze - 2022 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards. Bronze - 2022 Limestone Coast Wine Show.
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Campbell Mattinson
Award winning Australian wine reviewer for Wine Companion and winefront.com.au

Vintage 2021
94 points Halliday Wine Companion
Firm, powerful and impressive. There's been a resurgence in varietal cabernet franc wines of late, and this is an excellent example of why. Blackcurrant, cocoa and eucalyptus flavours feel both rock solid and bold in the mouth (in a positive way), leading to a dry, resounding finish. You have to enjoy tannin to go for this because there's plenty of it here, but in that context, it's very good.

Vintage 2019
92 points Wine Orbit
Varietally expressive and immediately appealing, the wine shows blackcurrant, dried herb, toasted nut and mixed spice aromas on the nose. It's equally attractive on the palate, displaying excellent fruit intensity backed by fine tannins, finishing long and succulent. At its best: now to 2027.
