YALUMBA MENZIES CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2005 - 6000ML

Style: Savoury & Detailed

The Yalumba Clocktower presides over what is famously celebrated as Australia¿s oldest family-owned winery, based in Angaston. It¿s an imposing building, equal parts regal and rustic, and it has been the locus for the Hill Smith family¿s winegrowing for six generations. For decades, Robert Hill Smith has steered the family business into a diverse operation, from ventures throughout the country to New Zealand, along with premium wine importation and a critically important vine nursery. He has also famously championed viognier, and was driving meaningful sustainability and environment policies well before most, and continues to. The name Yalumba, though, is synonymous with the Barossa. It speaks of the traditional hero varieties (and viognier, too, from the Eden) and the sun-kissed earth. But Yalumba excels just as much in Coonawarra, with the flagship The Caley straddling both regions in the classic old Australian cabernet shiraz blend. It¿s a neat connective thread between place, grape and time. Through the range of iconic bottlings and newer specialised additions, the Yalumba wines deliver high quality wines that speak equally to history and a restlessly progressive spirit. WINE COMPANION

An icon in Australian wine, Yalumba¿s Coonawarra-born Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon has long stood at the pointy end of our country's fine-wine pyramid, and I¿m sure many will fondly remember occasions when a well-cellared example of the Menzies has knocked their socks off. Nothing¿s changed. DAVE BROOKS ¿ WINE COMPANION

|The Menzies¿ is made by small lot winemaking maintaining the integrity of each harvest parcel throughout vinification and maturation. The grapes are crushed to small static fermenters and the liberation of colour and tannin is controlled either by plunging the skins, irrigating the fermenting wine over the cap or draining all the wine from the skins then flooding it back. Selected parcels were given extended skin contact before pressing. The majority of oak in which the wine was matured was of French origin, although included in the oak profile were 20% of third use American oak hogsheads. Once the bottling blend was finalised, the wine was returned to barrel for a further six months to harmonise, giving a total of 22 months in oak. YALUMBA

Region: Coonawarra, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Variety: Cabernet blend

ABV: 14.5%

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