Gold Trees – Cabernet Sauvignon – 2017

Gold Tree wines are produced from the most prestigious vineyard regions in South Australia, while our winemaking philosophy ensures that only the very best from the harvest make it into a bottle of Gold Trees.

Gold Trees – Cabernet Sauvignon- 2017

This is a rich and complex wine with layers of flavour and soft, fine, well-structured tannins. This wine shows a brick red colour with a rich and complex nose prominent in blackcurrant, tobaccos and typical leafy characters with hints of game. There are hints of cassis flavours, cigar box and cedar all combined with lingering gamey note.

The fruit for this wine was harvested from vineyards with careful row selection yielding the best possible parcels for use in this blend. The fruit was harvested within the range of 13.5 to 14.0 Baume, once it had developed a full intensity and complexity of flavours, embodied by a full rounded tannic structure, important for mouthfeel and long, complex flavours on the finish.

The quality of the fruit lent itself to extended skin contact for optimum extraction of colour, so after crushing the fruit was Fermented on skins in temperature – controlled stainless steel for between ten and twelve days. Pressing, settling and clarification followed and the winemaking process was completed with the assessment and grading of all the separate components before assemblage of the final blends.

Region

Riverland, South Australia

Colour

Brick red colour

Nose

The nose offers a varietal expression with plum and black olive ad a hint of herbaceous. Blackcurrant, tobacco and typical leafy characters with hints of game. Nose prominent in blackcurrant, tobacco and typical leafy characters with hints of game.

Palate

Careful oak handling has added complexity to both the nose and the palate, while complimenting the blackcurrant flavours with superb length and elegant tannins.

Maturation

The wine was stored in stainless steel tanks to preserve fruit freshness and flavour.

Food Match

It currently makes a superb accompaniment to red meats, game birds and hard cheeses. Try it also with hearty stews and casseroles.