Family Reserve Wines
Reserve 'Donald's Block' Cabernet Merlot 2018
90 Points (Silver) - Halliday Wine Companion
The Cabernet for this wine is sourced from our oldest block of Cabernet (Donald’s Block), planted in 1968, which makes up a part of Delatite’s original plantings.
- The fruit was fermented in small open topped fermenters and was hand plunged three times a day it was then left to soak on its skins for ten days to maximise its tannic profile.Â
- The wine spends 18 months in barrel. 80% of those barrels are new with 60% French and 40% American oak being used.
Summit Club Price:
- $86.25 (Buller and Stirling),
- $97.75 (Timbertop)
$115.00
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The wine is bottled without the use of fining* or filtration to maximise the quality of the flavours but this will lead to a deposit of harmless crystals being left in the bottle.Â
The biodynamically grown block yields fruit with small and intensely flavoured berries that is the integral component of this wine.
*Fining agents are protein based compounds used to reduce the level of phenolics in the wine so it is vegan friendly.
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