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Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 94%, Merlot 5%, Petit Verdot 1% Colour: Rich, dark red. Nose: The lifted bouquet displays perfumed notes of violets, cassis and mulberries with hints of dark chocolate, cedar and bayleaf. Palate: The palate displays sweet dark and red berry fruit with earthy gravelly notes and hints of bayleaf and black olive adding a savoury element to the wine. The wine is rich and complex with great length and balance supported by ne grained layered tannins and seamlessly integrated French oak. Style: The warm and extended ripening period afforded by the 2009 vintage has produced a rich and concentrated wine reective of the season. This classically styled Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot displays all the characteristics looked for from this region, vibrant fruit with layers of complexity, structure and extraordinary longevity. Food Match: Tenderidge eye llet, char grilled with parsnip and potato dauphinoise, spinach puree, roasted mushrooms and black trufe butter. Alc/Vol: 14.0% pH: 3.73 Total Acidity: 6.6 g/L Harvest Date: 27 March to 17 April 2009. Oak Maturation: Seasoned in 50% new and 50% two year old French oak for 18 months. Bottling Date: 6 December 2010. Cellaring Potential: Up to 15 years.
Vintage Following a challenging spring growing period, summer and autumn provided some of the best weather ever experienced by the region. A classic Indian Summer resulted in warm, dry days with cool nights. These conditions are ideal for producing exceptional red wines as the fruit ripens slowly, allowing sufcient time for excellent tannin and avour development. Fortunately, there were no heat spikes, which can have a negative impact on ripening and fruit avours. The 2009 vintage will be remembered as a classic for Cabernet Sauvignon from the Voyager Estate vineyards, producing rened and concentrated fruit avours combined with ne-grained and physiologically ripe tannins.
Vineyard The core Cabernet Sauvignon components for this wine are sourced from three exceptional vineyard blocks - our 30-year-old Estate Old Block, Block 12 from our North vineyards and a component of fruit from an outstanding Wilyabrup vineyard. These three vineyards all display exceptional consistency from season to season and showcase clear vineyard site expression producing wines with great intensity and individuality. The vineyards are all planted on gravelly soil types with an underlying stony/clay base, characterised by excellent drainage properties but allowing a slow release of moisture to the vines during the growing and ripening phases, due to the clays ability to store moisture. Viticultural management is intensive, with the single-minded philosophy of achieving exceptional uniformity through a natural, back-to-basics farming approach, combined with the following practices: meticulous hand pruning, shoot thinning, delateraling of the fruiting zones, yield regulation, green thinning, hand harvesting and fruit sorting.
The Wine The fruit for this wine was harvested between 27 March and 17 April. Bunches were de-stemmed to retain as many whole berries as possible, after which the parcels were fermented separately in open and upright fermenters with regular, gentle pump overs or plunging. Fermentation temperatures were kept below 28C and lasted as long as 12 days. Following primary fermentation, two parcels were left on skins for an additional 19 days before being pressed. The wines from each parcel remained separate during 18 months of maturation in tight-grain French oak, of which 50% was new. The wines were racked every three months to aid clarication. Following the maturation period, the batches were then blended, egg-white ned and ltered prior to being bottled in December 2010. The wine is blended with a small portion of Merlot and Petit Verdot - the Merlot adding esh and earthiness to the mid-palate whilst the Petit Verdot adds great aromatics with violet nuances.
Steve James Manager of Winemaking and Viticulture with Winemaker, Travis Lemm, and Vineyard Manager, Glen Ryan
For more information contact: Fiona Findlay, Sales and Marketing Manager Telephone: +61 8 9385 3133 Email: fndlay@voyagerestate.com.au
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