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2008
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"The 2008 Cabernet follows what has been a pretty impressive history of Killerby Cabernets. Richly coloured and intensely flavoured.” |
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Vineyard Notes: The grapes for this wine are sourced from Dr Killerby’s original Geographe vineyard, planted in 1973 and our Margaret River vineyard, planted in 1977. The maturity of both of these vineyards allows us to harvest fruit of considerable intensity. Harvesting Notes: Throughout the months of February and March the fruit for this wine was carefully machine harvested in the cool of night. Winemaking Notes: Following harvesting, the fruit is carefully crushed into fermenters were it is fermented on skins to extract maximum flavour and colour. Following fermentation the wine is pressed to barrel for maturation in French oak barriques and hogsheads. Wine characteristics: Alcohol content: 14.0%. Residual Sugar: <2.5g/L Colour: Deep red. Nose: Lifted nose of mulberries, vanilla and cedary, cigar box characters from the oak. Palate:
The palate is stylish with blackcurrant, berry and chocolate
flavours with good length and depth. French oak maturation
has filled out the palate and given a subtle smokey
background. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is what has been said of
previous vintages: 2005 Vintage: "A stylish Cabernet displaying some distinct cool mint, tobacco and leafy overtones. It's a medium to full bodied wine with ripe sinewy tannins and ample supporting oak." Rating 86/100. Ray Jordan, WA Wine Guide 2009 2003 Vintage: “Leafy, scented, briar and cigar box aromas; light-to medium-bodied, with well-defined blackcurrant/cassis flavours; good length. Screwcap. 13.9% alc. Rating: 90/100. Drink 2013 $24” James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2007.
2002 Vintage: “Honest,
early-drinking cabernet with a lightly musky and herbal
aroma of sweet, slightly jammy raspberries and red plums
over spicy, cedary oak. It’s smooth and creamy, with
vibrant, if uncomplicated red fruit flavours over an
assertive spine and cedar/vanilla oak.”
Jeremy
Oliver, OnWine July 2004. “The Cabernet is the
other top performer in the Killerby stable…. Over the
years it has accumulated seven trophies and innumerable gold
medals.” James Halliday, Wine Companion. |
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2001 Vintage: “There’s
no holding back on this sucker.
It’s got the safety off and ready to fire.
Solid chunky blend of Geographe and Margaret River
cabernet with a deep intensity on the middle palate, fine
tannins and plenty of French oak for the long haul. The fruit is superb and this is a wine that will handle
another ten years in the cellar. 91/100” Ray
Jordan, Wine – Western Australia’s Best, p. 47. |
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2000 Vintage: Jeremy
Oliver, Australian Wine Annual, “A
powerful, polished Cabernet Sauvignon 2000 is the pick of
the current crop from Killerby, a winery that is beginning
to reassert itself as one of the leading pack in Western
Australia. This is a cabernet for the future with deep, dark
expression of ripe fruit flavours, very firm tannins and a
suggestion of dark olives and bitumen. 1999 vintage: “5 Glasses – 94/100” James Halliday: “as close to perfection as the real world will allow”. |
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