Ross Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

90 pts Robert Parker, Jr. The Wine Advocate - Black currant notes also appear, along with an excellent texture, superb purity.

Tasting Notes

This Cabernet Sauvignon displays a new season nose of green capsicum, black pepper and cinnamon with a complimenting smooth and rich palate, exhibiting fresh plums, sweet cherry fruit with overtones of roasted red capsicum and Spanish olives, balanced by velvety tannins.

Food Accompaniments

Dark chocolate and chilli, all your favourite red meat dishes.

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

90 pts Robert Parker, Jr. Wine Advocate Issue #173
The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon is a beautiful effort exhibiting pure creme de cassis characteristics intermixed with cedar, white chocolate, and a hint of Allspice. In the mouth, black currant notes also appear, along with an excellent texture, superb purity, and a medium to full-bodied, lightly tannic finish. Drink it over the next 5-7 years.

Winemaker Notes

THE GRAPES Batched for this wine were carefully selected from our vineyards in Lyndoch. THE 2005 VINTAGE provided good growing conditions, ensuring full maturity of all varieties of grapes in a warm dry season. Harvest took place in late March 2005. The grapes were harvested at optimal ripeness, in order to fully display their individual characteristics. FERMENTATION took place in open-fermenters for extended contact of eight to ten days with daily pump overs. The wine was drained and lightly pressed into French hogsheads where fermentation was completed. After racking, the wine was returned to hogsheads for a further fourteen months maturation and is still in barrel. THE WINE is dark to very dark crimson with a blue tinge and displays a new season nose of green capsicum, spice, black pepper and cinnamon. The palate is smooth and rich, exhibiting fresh plums, sweet cherry fruit with overtones of roasted red capsicum and Spanish olives, balanced by velvety tannins. BEST DRINKING Now to 2015

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Alcohol:14.5%
pH:5.5
Total Acid: 6.9gL
Residual Sugar: 1.4gL
Free/Total Sulfur: 19/ 59mgL total

$14.99

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Cabernet Sauvignon