Ros Ritchie Cabernet Sauvignon
Alpine Valleys,King Valley
Price Range at Release: $30-$49
Vintage: 2018
Alc %: 14.5
$ Rel: 34
Stylish and shapely, medium to fullish in weight, it's scented with violets, red flowers, small black and red berries, fresh cedar/vanilla oak and reveals suggestions of dried herbs and mint. It's polished, long and juicy, with a vivacious core of small berry flavour and cedary oak supported by fine, drying, powdery tannins and finishing with true persistence. Everything is in place for a long cellar life.
Last Date Tasted: 25/10/2023
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Cellar
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Drink Now
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Maybe Too Old
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Vintage
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2018
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92 | 17.7 | 2026-2030+  | Buy it |
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2016
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88 | 16.5 | 2021-2024  | |
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2015
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94 | 18.5 | 2027-2035 |
Winery
Ros Ritchie
Ros Ritchie was a winemaking star when I first got into wine. A genuine pioneer as a female winemaker, she has always let her own wines do the talking for her. Ros is a very talented maker of white wines, with great experience from what was once her family's property at Mansfield in Victoria's High Country. Her new wines from small sites around the Upper Goulburn and King Valley take this background into another and higher dimension of intrigue and complexity. We now see a totally professional and mature maker of wine working at a very high level indeed. There's nothing trendy or fashionable about Ros' modern wines. Instead, they deliver over and above expectations in terms of variety purity, structure and balance. Showing a thorough understanding of the international benchmarks for each wine, they're neither flashy nor showy - just great wines to enjoy.
Winemaker:
Ros Ritchie
Red Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon >
Cowan's Vineyard Shiraz
Merlot >Pinot Meunier >Pinot Noir >Sandy Creek Vineyard Tempranillo
Timbertop Vineyard Nebbiolo
Address:
The Magnolia , 190 Mount Buller Road , Mansfield , Victoria 3724 Australia
Principal Wine Region:
Upper Goulburn
Telephone:
0457 535 988
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