St Huberts Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

St Huberts Cabernet Sauvignon 2006St Hubert's has a long history of producing outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon and contains some of the oldest Cabernet vines in the Yarra Valley, with plantings dating back to 1966. The Cabernet Sauvignon fruit for this wine was sourced primarily from warm vineyard sites on the lower slopes of the Yarra Valley. These sites provide the warmth required in cool climate regions to produce rich, flavoursome characters in later ripening varieties. "Dense

The palate is rich and mouth-filling with excellent balance

Frankland River is home to plantings of all the traditional Australian grape varieties

After three hours

followed by the Cabernet Sauvignon and finally the last variety to be harvested

It is a fabulous wine

Tyrrell's owns vineyards in Heathcote and McLaren Vale

The wines show excellent texture and mouthfeel with floral aromatics and ripe dark fruits

He is proud that the Henschke name and reputation is inexorably linked with red wines in general and Hill of Grace in particular

Chardonnay of the Year Halliday Wine Companion 2018

Well-behaved

persistent finish is well supported by a spine of firm powdery tannins

The palate has delicate yet intense flavours of the 'Riesling regulars' such as lemons (but more so) limes with lovely acidity riding alongside