2020 Dalwhinnie Moonambel Cabernet Sauvignon

Highly Rated
One of the most bankable Cabernets in Victoria. The Moonambel Cabernet will cellar well for many years to come.

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The Moonambel Cabernet is a cellar classic from one of Victoria's most picturesque vineyards.

This is one of Victoria's most collectable cool climate Cabernets. The unique micro climate of the Dalwhinnie amphitheatre vineyard produces thick Cabernets with deep pools of fruit and formidable structure.

It's a wine that shows its best after it's allowed to unfurl in the bottle for a few years.

Richly flavoured and perfectly seasoned with the finest French oak, these wines have a great reputation - and with good reason. These are the kind of hearty, rich Cabernets that form the basis of many fine Australian cellars.

96 points
"It's easy enough to list the flavours: spearmint, boysenberry, dark chocolate and pure blackcurrant, but it's the arrangement and more so the flamboyant flourish of them that really impresses. This is Dalwhinnie in dynamic good form. Integrated tannin ripples through the back half of the wine, as do sweet woodsmoke characters, and the finish is full of running and then some."
- Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "It's easy enough to list the flavours: spearmint, boysenberry, dark chocolate and pure blackcurrant, but it's the arrangement and more so the flamboyant flourish of them that really impresses. This is Dalwhinnie in dynamic good form. Integrated tannin ripples through the back half of the wine, as do sweet woodsmoke characters, and the finish is full of running and then some." - Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points - "Blackcurrant and boysenberry, dark chocolate, dried herbs, peppermint tea and dried flower perfume. It’s medium to full-bodied, black olive and tobacco, a lovely sense of decay to the ripe small berried red and black fruits, a sure grip to grainy tannin, and while it maybe carries just a little too much warmth. the generosity of flavour and length stamps it out as a wine of presence and fine character. It’s a very good wine, kind of overtly regional, yet charismatic all the same." - Gary Walsh (The wine Front)

The fruit for this wine was picked from the original contour and front gate vineyards on the Dalwhinnie estate, where fruit then fermented for 14 days in open top fermenters. Once approaching dryness the wine was pressed directly to French oak barriques for a 20 month maturation. Careful barrel selection was carried out to blend this wine before bottling.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Pyrenees
Australian State VIC
Feature High Score
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Front
Critic Score 96
95
Size 750ml
Vintage 2020
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