2013 HEARTLAND ‘ONE’ CABERNET SAUVIGNON SHIRAZ
RRP: $130.00
Alc/Vol: 15.5%
Maturation Vessel: French and American oak Hogsheads in combination
Age of vines: 50 years +
Age of barrels: New
Time in barrel: 14 months
Cellaring potential: 15 years+
Suitable for vegans: Yes
Tasting Notes
The sheer intensity of this wine in its youth tends to obscure the multilayered collection of herbs and spices that track the unstoppable expansion of fruit on the palate. This densely purple wine of powerful dark fruit is complemented by velvety texture and a complex and lingering finish.
Vinification
The best grapes from the finest vineyards in Langhorne Creek are recruited to create Heartland One. The fruit was harvested at night and then crushed to small open top fermenters. After 24 hours of skin contact, fermentation was commenced with our Rhône isolate yeast. Following 8 days of cool fermentation on skins and hand-plunging three times daily, the wine was transferred to new oak hogsheads (both French and American) for malolactic transformation, racking and a further 14 months of maturation.
Vintage
Spring frosts and the nature of the old vines combined to offer us only the smallest of harvests for Heartland One in 2013. Although quantities a very low, the gentle ripening season has yielded a wine of enormous potential.
-2013
