Terre a Terre Crayeres Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2021

The Terre a Terre Crayeres Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2021 is a blend of 91% cabernet franc and 9% shiraz.

The fruit was transported from Wrattonbully to the Tiers winery in the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills, where the cab franc and shiraz were fermented in open top fermenters, before being aged in French barriques (225L) of which around 30% were new, for 14 months. The wine was bottled without filtration. It’s 14.5% alcohol and sealed with a screwcap.

I can’t stress enough how very few, if any, reds at this price point see such an expensive oak regime. I also love that this wine is a blend (cab franc and shiraz) that you’ll only see in Australia, a combination that produces great aromatics, length and power, yet remains elegant. This is an absolute bargain.

“Red fig, black cherry and rhubarb. Pink peppercorn, damson plum and cinnamon. Oak inserts itself with a cocoa nib bitterness and espresso crema. This is a bit of an enigmatic wine with a filigree of fine but weighty tannins and a mix of sour red fruits and exotic spice. A wine with detail and complexity and of superb value.”
95 points, Shanthe Wale, Halliday's Wine Companion.

“I’m cray cray about Cabernet Franc. Red fruit, rosewater, a little mint chocolate, light nutty oak. It’s medium-bodied, red fruit and some darker berries, hazelnut, a fresh feel to it, with well-settled acidity, fine chalky tannin grip, and a finish of excellent length. All just so. Beautifully made, and lovely to drink.”
94 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front.

“A wonderful drink finding a stellar balance between the blueberry, mulberry fruit character inherent and the riff of sage leaf, bay leaf, bush herbal element that seems a calling card of Wrattonbully Cab Franc. There’s a succulence to texture, a freshness inherent in the wine – it lifts on bright acidity and finds rails of sandy tannin to reset the palate with each sip.”
94 points.

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