2015 Highbank Coonawarra Family Reserve

Highly Rated
The flagship Cabernet blend from the bucolic organically-farmed Highbank vineyard

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Description

The Highbank Family Reserve is taken from one of the original 1890 Coonawarra fruit colony vineyards, rare vines that produce rarified fruit.

It's a phenomenal Australian depiction of a Bordeaux blend that is carefully manicured on its way to bottle. It's built for power, prowess and presence in the glass: each variety adding something to the final wine which is greter than the sum of its parts.

It tastes of Coonawarra; the red dirt, the surrounding Australian gums, the warm sun and the rain. It's the top of the pile for this excellent producer. Buy with confidence, this will be "one of those wines" given appropriate time to unfurl in the cellar.

95 Points - "Oh yeah. Here’s a seriously good wine. It’s not quite to the epic level of the 2014 but it’s close. Succulent feel, medium weight, really pure fruit character, light sheen of oak spice a whisper in the wine. Pretty cassis and lavender characters, light green herb and pepper elements, some graphite minerality and a moreish, fresh feel. There’s a faint meaty character to the wine too. Such detail and interest, such awesome deliciousness and a general sense that you’re drinking something extraordinarily fine." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Our family vineyard is one of the original 1890 Coonawarra fruit colony vineyards located on the high bank of terra rossa soil.

Our vines are hand pruned in winter, hand picked at vintage and grown without the use of chemical fertilisers, herbicides or inseticides.

Our wine is hand plunged in open fermenters producing a distinctive soft texture, which is gently enhanced by using only the finest French oak barrels in the wine aging process.

We offer this elegant handmade wine to you with pride.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Sub Type Cabernet | Blends
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Coonawarra
Australian State SA
Feature High Score
Organic
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2015
Closure Cork

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For orders under this amount, delivery is calculated at checkout based on your postcode. You can order in any quantity or combination of wines you like. Straight dozens are not required.

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Estimated delivery transit time varies depending on your location. Please review this page for specific estimates.

Sydney (Our Vans): If no one is home and there are no special delivery instructions our driver will try to call for instructions. If the driver believes there is a safe space to leave your wine they will do so if not, they will return the item to us and hold your order until further instruction from you. 

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