Bella Oaks, Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_australia

Bella Oaks, Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_australiaThe 2017 Proprietary Red Wine is a wine I tasted from barrel that I then missed from bottle, as the estate chose to release the 2018 first, and this wine fell through the cracks. Several recent bottles of the 2017 have all been sublime. Readers will find a wine that shows the mid weight, approachable style of the year off to great effect. Silky tannins wrap around dark toned fruit, mocha, spice, licorice and chocolate. The 2017 is an elegant,

it fermented with some full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats and had 30 days of maceration

fig and boysenberry confiture flavors rolling through

Peppery and meaty notes combine with ripe cherries and cassis on the nose of the 2017 Hermitage

earth and mocha-inflected red and dark currant aromas that are set off by moderately prominent wood toast notes

There’s nothing attenuated or ethereal on the palate – it's remarkably dense

With medium body

Theres fennel and licorice

persistent and solidly complex finale

in Gualtallary and Altamira

But for all of the variety that these phenomena entail

7% Petit Verdot

with good concentration