2018 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Monteperle has a small planting of Cabernet Sauvignon that we wanted to showcase as one of the standout wines that we can produce from this vineyard. It shows the best that this variety has to offer.
Ruby red in colour, the nose is classic Cabernet Sauvignon, showing complex leafy blackcurrant fruit and cigar box aromas from the new French oak.
The palate is long and structured, the hallmark of this variety, with blackcurrant and cranberry fruit, with firm tea-leaf tannins. The oak plays a supporting role in tying all this together. This wine is built to age gracefully.
Grape Variety : 100% cabernet sauvignon
Region : Barossa Valley
PH : 3.52
Acidity : 6.6 g/L
Alc/vol : 14.1%
Oak maturation : 24 months in 100% new French oak
Drinking peak : 2025 - 2040
Price: $185 (MEMBER ONLY)
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2020 143rd Royal Adelaide Wine Show Awards- 90 points, Silver
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2021 Royal Queensland Wine Show Awards- 88 points, Bronze
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2021 Decanter World Wine Awards- 90 points, Silver
- "Big and inky, with masses of toasty oak framing a multi-layered palate showing peppercorn, spice and ambitious, sweet blue fruits."
Winestate, Sept/Oct 2021
- 90 points, Bronze, 3 stars,
- "Woody spicy nose, some plums and cherries. Earthy palate with good savoury length. "
Winestate, Jul/Aug 2022, Cabernet & Bordeaux Challenge XII
- 96 points, Gold, 4.5 stars
- "A classy number with great colour, a beautiful complex nose, and an excellent palate structure. It’s rich and generous but shows good restraint. "
DWWA 2022
- 95 points, Gold
- "Very dark, dense wine, with distinctive blackcurrant, blackberry, and black cherry fruit flavours, rich plumcake, chocolate and eucalyptus and tarragon notes and a pleasant leafy quality. There’s good balance of chewy tannins and astringent acidity in a wine that’s long-termer. "
James Halliday Wine Companion 2023
- 91 points, Silver
- "A concentrated, classically composed Barossa cabernet Sauvignon from the Lyndoch subregion, aged 21 months in 100% new French oak. Fruit notes of rich blackberry, blackcurrant, and cassis with hints of tobacco, cedar, vanilla oak spice and liquorice. Full bodied, with impressive fruit density, compact chocolatey tannin and a lingering finish of black fruits and French oak spice."
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