2017 d'Arenberg 'The Coppermine Road' Cabernet Sauvignon McLaren Vale

• 97 Point McLaren Vale Cabernet
• #1 McClaren Vale Cabernet, Real Wine Review
• Fourth-Generation Winemaking Family 
• Critically Acclaimed Producer
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About the Wine

Coppermine Road runs parallel to d'Arenberg's very best Cabernet vineyard in McLaren Vale, just meters from the winery, cellar door, and restaurant. Planted to an almost extinct clone, this vineyard rarely yields greater than one ton to the acre. Year after year the Coppermine Road Cabernet is one of the best value Cabernets in all of Australia. 

Since 1912 the Osborn family have tended vineyards in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Today fourth-generation family member, Chester, makes distinctive wines using traditional methods both in the vineyard and the winery. Every vineyard has a personality Chester encourage to flourish with minimal intervention in the vineyard and winery. Through time-honored techniques such as open fermentation, foot treading, and basket pressing, this personality is allowed to shine! Harmony between environmental sustainability and wine industry practice is a strong commitment upheld at d'Arenberg, with the aim to pass on a sustainable business to the next generation!

Tasting Notes: Allow a few minutes in glass for the full array of aromas to evolve. Over the course of this period, your sense of smell will be led from savory, cedar, cigar box, sage, oregano, and ferrous notes eventually through to lifted violets, blackcurrant, boysenberry, mulberry, mint, and citrus peel. The palate will similarly start out reasonably tight but will open generously, presenting opulent fruit on the attack, matched with a medium-bodied mid-palate and complemented and drawn out through ripples of fine, chalky tannins.

Reviews

~97 Real Wine Review. #1 of 38 2017 Top Cabernets Sauvignon from McLaren Vale

The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 offers aromas of savory, cedar, cigar box, sage, oregano, and ferrous notes eventually through to lifted violets, blackcurrant, boysenberry, mulberry, mint, and citrus peel. The palate will similarly start out reasonably tight but will open generously, presenting opulent fruit on the attack, matched with a medium-bodied mid-palate and complemented and drawn out through ripples of fine, chalky tannins. ~95 James Halliday

An attractively floral cabernet with violet and dried-rose notes, as well as dried leaves, forest wood, mint, and wet earth. The fruit sits in the blackcurrant, blueberry, and purple-cherry zone. A succulent palate with ripe but fine, long tannins, carrying plenty of purple and blue-fruit flavors. Classically Australian in character and delivered with an impressive eye to elegance. Drink or hold. Screwcap ~94 James Suckling

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