Description
Mount Horrocks Wines is operated by proprietor/winemaker Stephanie Toole, who restricts production to approximately 3,500 cases per annum in order to achieve her aims of quality and single vineyard expression. All three estate-owned Clare Valley vineyards, totalling ten hectares, are ‘A certified’ by Australian Certified Organic (ACO). James Halliday says “Stephanie Toole has never deviated from the pursuit of excellence in the vineyard and winery. She has three vineyard sites in the Clare Valley, each managed using natural farming and organic practices. The attention to detail and refusal to cut corners is obvious in all her wines. 5 Red Star Winery”
Stephanie carefully crafts “essentially hand-made food wines with emphasis on structure as well as generous fruit flavours”. Only estate grown grapes are used and these are hand-picked and gently handled under conditions that ensure the varietal and site-specific flavours in the resultant wine, as well as its organic status, are retained. As no finings have been found necessary the wines are all suitable for vegans and vegetarians. Only the finest French oak barriques are used for those wines spending time in barrel.
Textbook, benchmark cabernet from Stephanie Toole, whose “attention to detail and refusal to cut corners” (James Halliday) is very much evidenced here. This low yielding vineyard is hand-picked within a very small ideal harvest window and gently plunged 3-4 times a day like the shiraz but with 10-12 days on skins to help complex the tannins, followed by eighteen months maturation in French barriques (thirty-five per cent new). Single vineyard, organically grown, this is a powerful wine from an extremely low yielding vintage.
From the winery: “Deep, dark cabernet colour along with typical aromas of dried leaf, herb and black currant. Elegant and long, these characters are reflected on the palate to display an impressive varietal display wrapped in fine-grained, chalky tannins for great texture and length. Poised, stylish and cellar-worthy. Now to 2035.”
RRP $56 Our Price $46.99
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