Wine Overview
A Bordeaux style blend from the classy red varieties of Margaret River.
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Composition: |
53% Cabernet Sauvignon 42 % Merlot 5% Petit Verdot
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Region: |
Margaret River
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Technical Notes: |
A Bordeaux style blend from the classy red varieties of Margaret River. Cabernet Sauvignon is structurally the best variety with trademark blackberry/blackcurrant fruit flavours backed up by long fine tannin. Merlot has wonderful mid palate fleshiness giving a sweet fruit centre to the wine. Petit Verdot has a very dark colour, firm structure and intense sweet blackberry fruit on the front palate and slightly chalky tannins on the finish.
This wine is predominantly sourced from our Leston Vineyard in the Wilyabrup subregion (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot) and from two vineyards in the Yallingup subregion to the north (Cabernet Sauvignon). Fermentation took place in a mix of open top and closed static fermenters and some parcels had extended skin macerating time to build the layered tannin profiles necessary for Cabernet blends. All components were basket-pressed and aged in French oak barriques for 15 months.
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Tasting Notes: |
The 2008 Sideways Cabernet Merlot is an outstanding example of the Margaret River cabernet blend from a great vintage. There are aromas of blackberry, mulberry, smoked meats and roasted cherry tomatoes with the underlying regional bay leaf and black currant Cabernet Sauvignon fruit. The palate shows wonderful Merlot power: layered fruit characters of plum and forest floor with herbal and earthy complexity, a savoury edge to the ripe gravely mouth-filling tannin structure which finishes long and fine. The Petit Verdot adds a subtle but important firmer backbone to the line of the wine.
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Cellaring Notes: |
This wine has the structure to develop more complexity for another five years. A great match with venison and mushroom pie.
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