Flying Fish CoveWildberry Estate Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
About this product
Region: 100% Margaret River
Sub-region: Wilyabrup
Cellaring Potential: 5-10 years
Winemaker notes
Colour: Vibrant red purple hue.
Bouquet:Black and red berry fruit are complemented by earthy graphite and dark chocolate notes. Maturation in seasoned French oak gives a subtle background of vanilla and spice.
Palate:Medium bodied and vibrant palate sums up this wonderful expression of Wilyabrup Cabernet. The palate is fresh and full of vibrant mulberry, cassis and black cherry flavours. Mature, ripe and fresh tannin drives the flavour to a long and persistent finish.
Viticulture
This Cabernet Sauvignon was grown in the Wilyabrup sub region of Margaret River. The canopy management is a vertical shoot position trellis with a north south facing aspect. The clonal selection is the popular Houghton selection Cabernet Sauvignon.
Soil types are typically sandy loam over free draining lateritic sub soils. 2021 is typified by a cool and mild growing season which has culminated in wines of delicacy and poise.
Winemaking
The fruit was picked on the 11th April showing excellent flavours and tannin maturity. Lightly crushed fruit was then placed to a static fermenter for a further 13 days of fermentation with daily pump overs to ensure a moderate fermentation temperature and extraction of tannin.
Once the desirable amount of flavour and tannin was evident the wine was pressed before being matured in seasoned French oak for a following 9 months before bottling.
Technical details
Alc: % 14.0
pH: 3.62
TA: 5.9
RS: <1.0g,L.
Region: 100% Margaret River
Sub-region: Wilyabrup
Cellaring Potential: 5-10 years
Winemaker notes
Colour: Vibrant red purple hue.
Bouquet:Black and red berry fruit are complemented by earthy graphite and dark chocolate notes. Maturation in seasoned French oak gives a subtle background of vanilla and spice.
Palate:Medium bodied and vibrant palate sums up this wonderful expression of Wilyabrup Cabernet. The palate is fresh and full of vibrant mulberry, cassis and black cherry flavours. Mature, ripe and fresh tannin drives the flavour to a long and persistent finish.
Viticulture
This Cabernet Sauvignon was grown in the Wilyabrup sub region of Margaret River. The canopy management is a vertical shoot position trellis with a north south facing aspect. The clonal selection is the popular Houghton selection Cabernet Sauvignon.
Soil types are typically sandy loam over free draining lateritic sub soils. 2021 is typified by a cool and mild growing season which has culminated in wines of delicacy and poise.
Winemaking
The fruit was picked on the 11th April showing excellent flavours and tannin maturity. Lightly crushed fruit was then placed to a static fermenter for a further 13 days of fermentation with daily pump overs to ensure a moderate fermentation temperature and extraction of tannin.
Once the desirable amount of flavour and tannin was evident the wine was pressed before being matured in seasoned French oak for a following 9 months before bottling.
Technical details
Alc: % 14.0
pH: 3.62
TA: 5.9
RS: <1.0g,L.
- TypeCabernet Sauvignon
- Size750ML
- RegionMargaret River
- Current Vintage2021
- Standard Drinks8.3
- Alcohol Volume14%
- CountryAustralia
- StateWestern Australia
- Brand NameFlying Fish Cove
- Wine MakerSimon Ding
- Food MatchBeef
- Vegan Friendlytrue
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
Silver Medal 2023 International Wine & Spirits Competition -- Silver Medal 2023 Wine Show of WA -- Silver Medal 2023 Royal Queensland Wine Show 90 points Silver Medal 2022 Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show Silver Medal 2022 KPMG Sydney Royal Wine Show 91 points Bronze Medal 2022 Cowra Wine Show 89 points Bronze Medal 2022 WA Boutique & Single Vineyard Wine Show 89 points Bronze Medal 2022 Langton’s Margaret River Wine Show 87 points Bronze Medal 2023 Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show 85 points
Vintage 2021
94 points points Wine Orbit
Stylish and elegantly complex, the wine shows blackcurrant, sweet plum, tobacco, warm spice and cedar characters on the nose, followed by a concentrated palate offering refined texture tacked by beautifully infused tannins, making it sturdy and robust with a persistent, engaging finish. At its best: now to 2036.”
Vintage 2021
92 points points
This takes things up a little with its opulence and intensity evident through the aromas and powerful finished palate. Sweet blackcurrant and blackberry nuances pervade with notes of dark chocolate, black olive and bay leaf providing future interest. It’s still quite firm but has the capacity to cellar.”
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