Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Cape Landing’s Blackwood series of limited production premium wines represent the pinnacle of viticulture and the very best of wine making at Cape Landing. The finest parcels of fruit from each vintage are hand-picked, selected from individual vines, each distinguished by clone, aspect, soil and overall fruit quality from our Calgardup Road vineyard.

An opulent entry of velvet tannins, laced with flavours of black fruits, allspice, cherries and dark chocolate. A fine fruit core is gently suspended over a dark underlay, culminating in a lasting finish of black and red fruits, with bristling and persistent minerality.

WINEMAKER’S NOTES 

Select parcels of Cabernet Sauvignon are picked in the early hours of morning, de-stemmed and gently crushed, so that each berry is just split, ensuring slow and controlled extraction of colour, tannin and flavour, while still retaining aromatic freshness. The fruit undergoes a cool ferment for 14 days, with 3 gentle pump overs per day during fermentation. After a further 10 to 14 days of post-fermentation maceration, the wine is gravity drained. The free-drained wine only is transferred to French Oak barriques, 35% of which are new, to complete secondary fermentation and 16 months maturation, following which the wine is blended, lightly fined and filtered before bottling.

Tasting Profile

Food Pairings:

Cheese

Fish

Poultry