2022 Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot

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Cult-favourite Cabernet from the outskirts of the Yarra Valley. This classic, elegant blend will evolve beautifully in the cellar.

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The Amelia is one of the most reliable Cabernet blends in Victoria, and the 2022 vintage stays true to its roots. A significant portion of the fruit comes from the estate’s original plantings from 1963, adding depth and character. This year's blend is 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and 10% Petit Verdot.

The 2022 vintage showcases the hallmark elegance of Amelia, with a bit more ripeness and energy. The wine offers a core of blackcurrant and red fruits, tobacco leaf, violet perfume, and a chalky minerality that speaks to the vineyard’s maturity.

This medium-bodied beauty is built for cellaring but is irresistibly drinkable now, with finely etched tannins and a crisp cranberry-like acidity.

97 points
“As fragrant and elegant as ever with its aromas of red cherries, cassis, violets and just a little cigar box. It's fragrant in the mouth, too, with these gently chewy and persistent tannins giving the wine its shape and structure. Gorgeous from go to woe.”
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points
“It’s really good...has energy and perfume...Cellaring will unlock further nuance and beauty.”
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

97 points - "The majority of this blend comes off the original dry-grown 1963 plantings. As fragrant and elegant as ever with its aromas of red cherries, cassis, violets and just a little cigar box. It's fragrant in the mouth, too, with these gently chewy and persistent tannins giving the wine its shape and structure. Gorgeous from go to woe." - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "Blackcurrant and red fruits, tobacco and pencils, quite some violet and rosehip perfume, some camphor, roast red capsicum and dried herb. It’s medium-bodied, firm and finely etched, very ‘minerally’, the acidity is crisp and almost cranberried, the tannin offers some chalky and grainy grip, and it’s long and bright to close. This wine has energy and perfume, and while it’s kind of frisky, I reckon it’s really good. Cellaring will unlock further nuance and beauty." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

A large proportion of the grapes for this wine come from the original
1963 plantings of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc
vines. The remainder is from the more recently planted – 1989 –
petit verdot. Whilst the proportions are different every year,
depending on fruit set and cropping levels, roughly speaking the
break down is about as follows: 65% cabernet sauvignon, 30%
cabernet franc and merlot, and 5% petit verdot. The addition of the
petit verdot grapes in the 1990s gave the wine an added backbone
of tannin and natural acidity. With its long growing season, the petit verdot grapes are the last to be harvested, usually in mid April.
The 2022 Amelia cabernet sauvignon merlot is showing trademark Amelia elegance and finesse with a little bit extra in ripeness. The 2022 Amelia is a typical Wantirna cabernet blend. The fruit is ripe, the tannins long and the palate reflects the high quality of Cabernets from this area of Australia. The blend this year is 24% merlot/cabernet franc, 66% cabernet sauvignon and 10% petit verdot. Certainly the 2022 it is a wine with tremendous immediate appeal and will definitely age very well. - Maryann Egan

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Sub Type Cabernet | Blends
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Yarra Valley
Australian State VIC
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Women in Wine
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 96
97
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
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Wantirna Estate

Wantirna Estate is a family affair, founded in 1963 by Reg and Bertina Egan.

This bucolic old-world-inspired vineyard is located not far from Melbourne town centre; now surrounded by suburbia, the proverbial rose amongst the thorns.

Now run primarily by Reg and Bertina's daughter Maryann, the estate produces a small premium range of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and classic medium-bodied Bordeaux blends that are elegant, classic and exceptional options for the cellar.

Reg describes their vineyard as a "never-ending world of change and enchantment".

Reg & Maryann Egan Wantirna Estate

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