Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road, Cabernet Sauvignon, Barossa Valley, 2007

About the winery

The grapes for this wine are picked from a solitary estate vineyard on the Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga close to Greenock. The vines are around 80 years old, and this is our smallest vineyard. The vines crop at 1.0 to 1.5 tons every acre of land and the grapes are singled out phenological readiness and flavour at a baume scope of 14 to 16º. This baume can create a commonly happening high liquor, despite the fact that this will rely on upon regular conditions.
Following picking the grapes are fermented in huge, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and squeezed through a wicker basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through development and mixed back together one week prior to packaging. Taking after essential maturation the wine is racked into barrel to experience characteristic MLF.The wine is left to develop in barrels (all new French hogsheads) for a sum of 36 months and after that packaged. The wine is normally not separated or fined preceding packaging, and is then left in jug to develop for an additional 24 months. This accordingly implies that the wine has been in barrel or container for in overabundance of five years preceding its discharge.

Winery Details

Greenock Creek Wines
54 Radford Road
Seppeltsfield, SA, 5355, Australia
Phone:   (08) 8562 8103
Website: http://www.greenockcreekwines.com.au/

About the wine

Profound garnet in color, the 2007 Roennfeldt Road Cabernet Sauvignon shows a fantastic  array of fragrances: sandalwood, oolong tea, cinnamon stick, cardamom, moist earth, tobacco, cedar, licorice and menthol over a center of dried mulberries and fruit cake. Full-bodied and thickly stuffed with spiced, dried berry flavors, it has a decent line of breathing life into corrosive, medium to firm grainy tannins and a long complete with the oak still poking  through.