2024 Gathering Cabernet Franc

Name: 2024 Gathering Cabernet Franc - The Lane Vineyard
SKU: 24GATH-CAB-FRANC-52
Price: 55.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$55.00 / bottle

Here comes the sun. That’s what our Cabernet Franc grapes get to proclaim before any other varietal on our estate. After all, being our most easterly facing vines, they’re first to glimpse sun each day.

DRINKS LIKE: Roasted coffee beans. Fennel. Blood plum. Dark chocolate. Savoury spices. Seamless tannins. Line and length

LOVE IT FOR: It’s approachability. Medium body, juicy and easy drinking. Food is absolutely non-essential.

FUN FACT: The first Cab Franc planting on our estate is thanks to cuttings from Paracombe Wines – true pioneers of Franc in the Hills.

PREVIOUS VINTAGE ACCOLADES:

2022 – Gold Medal – Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
2022 – Gold, 95 points – Stuart Knox, The Real Review 2023
2021 – Trophy ‘Best Red Varietal’ – The National Wine Show, Australia 2022
2021 – Trophy ‘Best Red Varietal’ – Royal Hobart Wine Show 2022
2021 – Gold – The National Wine Show, Australia 2022
2021 – Gold – Royal Hobart Wine Show 2022
2021 – 95 Points – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front 2022
2021 – 95 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review 2022
2021 – 95 Points – Ned Goodwin, MW 2022

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Specifications

Vineyard Location

100% estate grown in Hahndorf, Adelaide Hills

Season

2024 delivered a cool, even growing season that yielded wines with intense yet delicate flavours and vibrant colours. February and March saw an absence of rainfall, coupled with low crop yields and warmer temperatures, which led to an unusually fast-paced harvest.

Vinification

Destemmed, hand-plunged and fermented steadily over 12 days. The wine was then basket pressed into seasoned French oak where it matured for 8 months before bottling.

Technical

Alcohol: 13.7% • Residual Sugar: 0 g/L • Total Acidity: 5.80 g/L • pH: 3.65 • Altitude: 420m • Slope: Northerly • Contains sulphites

Grape Variety

100% Cabernet Franc

Food Match

Stelvin

Production

706

Winemaker

The Lane Vineyard

Best Drinking

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