2021 Mystery Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Deal No. 03

Bright crimson red with bright purple hues. Lifted aromatic and varietal wine, showing blueberry and blackcurrant fruits, along with hints of violet and flowering thyme aromatics. The palate has fresh blue and dark berry fruit flavours, floral herb characters, along with hints of cocoa and cedary oak. It is medium bodied and flows through the palate with a nice line of fine tannin and has a good persistence of fruit.

2021 in Coonawarra was a great combination of both quality and quantity. The cool start to the summer and a long dry ripening period provided time for the grapes to develop excellent colour and concentration of flavour. Picked from the prime rows of the block on 29 April 2021. With the close location to the winery, it was received within an hour of the end of picking. The parcel was destemmed but not crushed before going into a static fermenter. The fruit was warmed to 18*C on the way to the tank and inoculated once the tank was filled. BDX yeast was used and pumped over, 2 or 4 times per day depending on the fermentation stage and desired extraction. The parcel was pressed after 16 days on skins. The ferment was co-inoculated with malo bacteria 2 days into primary fermentation. It was then racked off lees before post-ferment SO2 add. The parcel was then matured on 15% new French oak for 12 months. The wine was cross-flow filtered prior to bottled but no fining was done