1840 Cabernet Merlot 750ml

This wine opens with blackberry fruit and savoury spices. There’s a hint of plum skin and rhubarb emerging with a subtle wild mint character in the background. The palate is complex and textured with a lovely acid line and tightly wound tannins working together to provide length to the finish. The fruit for this wine was picked in early March 2019. After de-stemming each variety to separate small 5 tonne open fermenters, they were both inoculated with selected yeast strains. During fermentation the must was pumped over twice daily to extract flavour, colour and tannin. Based on taste, the fermenting must was then pressed to tank and inoculated for Malolactic Fermentation (MLF) before being transferred into French oak barriques for maturation. With 5% new oak, the wine spent 16 months maturing in these barrels prior to blending and bottling.