2021 Ziggy's Block Cabernet Sauvignon

COLOUR | Deep garnet red.

AROMA | Violets, rose hip, and a delicate touch of mint, mingling with the cool freshness of eucalyptus. Rich layers of cassis and sultry dark fruit. Subtle notes of leather and vanilla bean.

PALATE | The palate is rich, powerful, and deeply expressive, delivering an alluring concentration of fruit with impressive depth. It opens with lush notes of ripe blackcurrant, dark plum. Unfolding into layers of vanilla and very subtle pepper. The tannins are fine, smooth, and glossy, offering a refined structure that adds texture and poise. A hint of dried leather and earthiness evokes a classic, old-world charm, while the vibrant fruit intensity reflects its modern Barossa origins. The wine carries remarkable length, with its elements in seamless harmony - a Cabernet that is both bold and contemplative. Smooth and approachable now, but built to age beautifully if you’ve got the patience for it to evolve gracefully with time in your cellar.

2021 is an extremely talented vintage, one that we will be talking about for many years to come. This form has now been franked having followed each individual bottle through maturation in our cellars and into bottle. The wines are very well balanced and have a soft and endless energy. All components of the wine work so
brilliantly and synergistically together that you wonder if we will ever be able to repeat the process with mother nature on our side.

WINEMAKING | One small parcel from this single block was picked, crushed and de-stemmed into a single 5-tonne open top fermenter. The time spent on skins was 10 days with 2-3 pump overs daily. All free run and pressings were combined in tank and after 24 hours the wine was then racked off gross lees to barrel, where malolactic fermentation occurred. The wine was bottled with minimum fining and no filtration.

MATURATION | 18 months in up to 50% new French oak and 2/3 year old hogsheads. 3 barrels bottled in November the following vintage.

CLOSURE | DIAM Cork
VOLUME | 750ml
VARIETAL | Cabernet Sauvignon
REGION | Barossa Valley
SUB-REGION | Greenock
ALCOHOL (% vol.) | 14.3%
VINE AGE | 20 years
ALTITUDE | 330m
AVERAGE RAINFALL | 480mm
SOIL | Sandy loam to red clay loam, containing coarse quartz and ironstone gravel over clay.