The 2017 Sweetwater Estate Shiraz and Cabernet blocks were picked on the 18th and 27th February. The warm dry 2017 vintage resulted in beautifully ripe and pristine fruit. Deep red with plum, blackberry, sage and cassis aromas with fine grained tannins.
The warm and dry 2018 vintage resulted in beautifully ripe pristine fruit. Deeply coloured with fragrant cherry plum and violet aromas. The natural fermentation process was completed with maturation in oak barrels to produce a velvety soft palate with admiral length.
Blackberry and jubey raspberry, cedar and tobacco, a pleasant earthiness and violet perfume. It’s medium to full-bodied, firm grainy almost gravelly tannin, something like iodine in there too, and a firm and slightly hard finish, tannin gripping as it goes.
The 2017 Sweetwater Estate Cabernet blocks were picked on the 18th and 27th February. The warm dry 2017 vintage resulted in beautifully ripe and pristine fruit. Deep red with blackberry, sage and cassis aromas and a fleshy palate with fine grained tannins.
