2020 Brookland Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2020 vintage in the Margaret River was characterized by the warm and dry weather patterns that resulted in an earlier harvest than expected. The parcels of the Brookland valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon were hand picked on the 9th of March. The old vine Cabernet Sauvignon produced a low yielding crop of intensely flavored fruit which displays elegant, fine tannins.

The fruit was hand-picked to maximize quality and to allow sorting of the fruit to ensure only the highest quality grapes were permitted into the fermenter. Fermented in open top fermenters for a period of ten days the wine was gently pressed off skins in a basket press, for the completion of alcoholic fermentation. The wine was then racked to French oak barriques and inoculated for malolactic fermentation. The Brookland Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon received 15 months maturation in new and seasoned oak. This is a small volume wine that was handled separately through its life and speaks of the sub-region in which the grapes were grown.