Description
This is a wine review for a Series C Red Blend 750ML wine. The wine is described as having a deep, sensuous aromatics with clear Series C typicity of dark blue/black fruit notes, rich layers of black currant pastille, liquorice, hints of Juniper berry and charred cedar-wood offer appreciable sophistication, the palate is deliciously broad and harmonious, displaying fruit sweetness throughout, luscious mid-palate with ripe tannins, good weight and texture. Both linear and continuous, showing perfect presence and great length. The vintage reflects a quintessential elegance, with a core of satin-textured tannins and youthful energy. While alluring in its youth, the 2020 Series C promises a decade or more of cellaring to realize its full potential.
- Red Blend
- Series C 2020 displays a great density of red to a black colour and a bright crimson rim
- Deep, sensuous aromatics with clear Series C typicity of dark blue/black fruit notes
- Rich layers of black currant pastille, liquorice, hints of Juniper berry and charred cedar-wood offer appreciable sophistication
- The palate is deliciously broad and harmonious, displaying “fruit sweetness” throughout
- Luscious mid-palate with ripe tannins, good weight and texture. Both linear and continuous, showing perfect presence and great length
- The vintage reflects a quintessential elegance, with a core of satin-textured tannins and youthful energy
- While alluring in its youth, the 2020 Series C promises a decade or more of cellaring to realise its full potential
- Twenty-two months in 68% new French oak barque, with the balance in older French oak
- Series C 2020 consists of Cabernet Sauvignon (58%), Merlot (24%), Malbec (10%) and Cabernet Franc (8%)
- Sixty-one barrels were produced