Hickinbotham The Peake Cabernet Shiraz

    Sale price $198.00 -100% Regular price $0.00
    Regular price $198.00

    A favourable growing season, with good winter rains, a mild flowering and fruit set period and continued spring rainfall. Vines showed good balance of shoot vigour and moderate berry size. The ripening period that began late January was very cool, with some welcome rainfall in mid-February. The cold nights and mild sunny days in March slowed sugar accumulation, resulting in excellent fruit ripeness and intensity.

    The 2021 Peake expresses blackberry, roasted espresso, vanilla, hazelnut, great mid body, length and energy.

    Variety: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Shiraz


    Country of Origin:


    Region: McLaren Vale


    Vintage: 2021


    Award:

    Huon Hooke - 97 points
    Dense, concentrated colour and a bouquet that suggests briars and tar/bitumen, with multiple herbs, blackberry and black cherry beneath, the palate loaded with mouth-coating tannins that complement the rich flavours. Traces of underbrush and a smidgin of tomato-bush. A big, solid, concentrated wine of long-term potential.
    Campbell Mattinson - 96 points
    It’s the blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and shiraz (40%). Amazing wine. Deep and elegant at once. Seamless, just so seamless. Blackcurrant and bay leaf notes, woodsmoke and cedar, roasted nuts, some coffee, some salted black olive characters. Tannin is immensely fine-grained; the finish all-round feels confident and long. Spread; that’s what this wine has. Lots of spread. It’s championship material. It’s a long-termer.


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