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Ravenswood Lane
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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This is a textbook Australian Cabernet Sauvignon with a Coonawarra elegance about it, even though the vineyard is in the Adelaide Hills. Mint and blackcurrant combine on the rich, pure and elegant palate whilst the tannins are fine and well managed. This is a refreshing, juicy wine. Drink now to 2017 and pair with chargrilled steak, spicy lamb stew, beef Wellington.
1996 saw the first wines produced under the Ravenswood Lane label at The Lane Vineyard. Their success led to owner John Edwards leaving the venture in 2005 to focus on producing single vineyard wines under his own label (The Lane Vineyard). Marty Edwards now manages the estate and is just as passionate about the project.
Catriona Felstead MW, Wine Buyer
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