Terre à Terre - Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz - 2020

This cuvée from Terre à Terre comes from the Crayères Vineyard, in Wrattonbully, in the south-east of South Australia. Xavier Bizot, born in Champagne, and Lucy Croser found chalk caves there that inspired the vineyard's name, in tribute to Champagne. The vines are rooted in red clay soils over limestone, under a temperate climate that favours structured, long wines.The blend brings together 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Shiraz. At the end of malolactic fermentation, the wines are racked and then aged for twelve months in old French oak barrels. After fining with egg white, they go into the blending tank before being bottled unfiltered, to preserve all their texture.This wine reveals notes of blackberry, blackcurrant, cherry, cocoa, dried herbs, spices, chestnut, leather and tobacco. The palate, deeply classical, rests on an exemplary tannic structure, with excellent length and fine persistence of tannins and flavours.