The 2005 vintage was idyllic in providing slow ripening over an extended period. These vintage characteristics helped produce an intense and beautifully complex wine.
The use of open canopies and low yields at Kuitpo Vineyard ensure the grapes are matured to optimum ripeness.
It's bouquet is quintessentially Cabernet Sauvignon. Unmistakably cool-climate in character, revealing its intense blackberries and dark plums, dark olives complemented with subtle cedary oak with undertones of herbaceous qualities.
This wines pallet has an abundance of forest fruits, with wonderful hits of sweet cassis. The 2005 vintage has excellent concentration, smooth and silky. Its tannins are firm and finegrained which contribute in this wines great balance and elegance.
This well balanced and sophisticated wine will give most enjoyment to those prepared to cellar it into the next decade.
To allow the superb characteristics of this wine to shine we suggest decanting and/or allowing to breath before service.
Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, clones G9V3 and Lc10
Region: 100% Adelaide Hills (Single Vineyard)
Harvest: First week of May 2005
Winemaking:
Matured for 24 months in oak, in 80% French barriques and 20% American hogsheads. 40% new oak, and 60% second use.
Alcohol: 14.7 % alc/vol
Total acidity: 6.4 g/L
pH: 3.52
Residual sugar: 0.7 g/L
Total sulphur dioxide: 116 mg/L
