2018 Vasse Felix, Tom Cullity, Cabernet Sauvignon & Malbec, Margaret River, Australia

2018 Vasse Felix, Tom Cullity, Cabernet Sauvignon & Malbec, Margaret River, Australia

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2018 Vasse Felix, Tom Cullity, Cabernet Sauvignon & Malbec, Margaret River, Australia

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Vasse Felix

Vasse Felix

Vasse Felix was the first commercial wine estate in Margaret River and produces wines of award-winning quality to this day.

The estate was established in 1967 by Dr. Thomas Cullity, a cardiologist with a love of European wines. Following the advice of expert viticulturalists, he planted vines across 8 hectares in Wilyabrup, which remains to this day the heart of the Vasse Felix estate.

Winemaker Virginia Willcock joined the Vasse Felix team in 2006, and her skill has helped propel the estate to even greater levels of quality and renown. Her team focus largely on Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, and aim to capture the essence of Margaret River’s unique environment and climate.

All fruit at Vasse Felix is harvested, fermented and matured in small parcels. The resulting wines are outstanding: vibrant and delicious, and exemplary representations of each Margaret River vintage.

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Margaret River

Margaret River

Located on the most south-westerly point of Australia, three hours’ drive south of Perth, the Margaret River region sprang to life during the 1960s and 1970s as a result of Professor Harold Olmo’s and Dr John Gladstone’s research into the region’s viticultural potential. Consequently Vasse Felix was planted in 1967, Moss Wood in 1970 and Cullen in 1971. Since then the plantings have grown exponentially, while the number of wineries has increased six-fold. This explosion of wineries has perhaps been to the detriment of the wine quality.

Bounded to the west by the Indian Ocean and the 90km Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin promontory, the region enjoys a benign if damp maritime climate in which the vines rarely shut down, causing disrupted flowering (exacerbated by strong, westerly sea winds). Over the growing season it’s 16 percent hotter than in Coonawarra and 7% than the Médoc.

The Cape ridge is made up of lateritic clay topsoils over weathered granite and gneiss, giving fruit with a relatively high pH. Cabernet Sauvignon is the most fancied variety,producing a lush, early drinking style, followed by Shiraz, Chardonnay and Sémillon.

Recommended Producers: Cullen, McHenry Hohnen Vintners, Moss Wood, Cape Mentelle and Voyager Estate.

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Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.

In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.

In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and  Australia.

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