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Earthworks
Earthworks wines are created by a dedicated group of growers in the heart of the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide. This rolling valley with its varied soils and aspect is famous for Shiraz, but also provides perfect ripening conditions for Cabernet Sauvignon, giving wines that have juicy black fruit character and very ripe tannins.
The red wines are fermented at relatively cool temperatures, to preserve the vibrant fruit character, and carefully handled to avoid extracting too much tannin. Maturation was in a mixture of inert steel tank for fruit quality and a small proportion of oak casks to add texture and sweet notes of vanilla, spice and toast. .
Cabernet Sauvignon
The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.
The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.
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A ripe, black fruit rich wine with a hint of sweet oak that encapsulates the generosity of Barossa Valley fruit
Earthworks wines are created by a dedicated group of growers in the heart of the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide. This rolling valley with its varied soils and aspect is famous for Shiraz, but also provides perfect ripening conditions for Cabernet Sauvignon, giving wines that have juicy black fruit character and very ripe tannins.
The wine was fermented at relatively cool temperatures for a red, to preserve the vibrant fruit character, and carefully handled to avoid extracting too much tannin. Maturation was in a mixture of inert steel tank for fruit quality and a small proportion of oak casks to add texture and sweet notes of vanilla, spice and toast. 2010 was a particularly successful vintage in the Barossa, with plentiful, healthy ripe fruit resulting from the dry, warm weather from November onwards.
Martin Hudson MW, Wine Buyer
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