The Botham 80 Series Cabernet Sauv 75cl 2018

Colour Full, bright ruby garnet red.

Nose A lovely wine to savour in the glass. Nuances of dark plum, cassis, cherry and earthy black olive with an aromatic background of cedar provide a concentrated complexity to the bouquet.

Palate The palate shows the joy of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon. The aromas hinted through the nose materialise on the tongue and combine with the round palate texture and silky tannins to give richness and persistence. Medium to full bodied in style, the wine has a balanced, soft acidity.

Sourced from state of the art vineyards in the Coonawarra wine region 400 km South of Adelaide in South Australia. Soils are of red / brown earths, varying to Terra Rossa loam and free draining limestone gravel. The fruit for this wine has been grown on exclusively on 2 wire vertical trellis, hand pruned and shoot thinned to attain low yields and consistently high fruit quality

The grapes are crushed and fermented in small stainless steel fermenters. Here the gentle extraction of colour and fruit flavours takes place. Some of the best fermenting wine is then “run down” to New French oak hogsheads and it finishes ferment in the barrels over the preceding weeks. This slow, long ferment allows the oak tannin and fruit tannin to combine fully giving a structural complexity and depth of character to the end wine. Post fermentation all of the high grade Cabernet Sauvignon wine components are kept separate in their blend grade groups. The partially finished wine post fermentation is then allowed to settle naturally before being racked to more new and second use French oak as wine parcels. Maturation of the wine is carried out in new and used French oak hogsheads over the next 12 months in our cool cellars. This wine sees minimal filtration and intervention, preserving all the premium characteristics of the varietal grape selection