2022 Craggy Range 'Sophia' Merlot Cabernet

Sophia is Craggy Range's flagship wine, a Bordeaux blend sourced from their best parcels of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc in the famous Gimblett Gravels vineyard. The wine is made at the Giants Winery complex in a specially designed circular fermentation cellar containing 8000 litre French oak cuves. Each of the cuves is used for fermenting the Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot parcels of wine that come from the Gimblett Gravels Vineyard. Below the Sophia cellar is an underground barrel cellar named The Quarry where the blended components of Sophia are aged together for its final 12 months.

Varieties: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon

95 Points and Tripple 'M' Ranked - Stephen Wong, The Real Review
Rich, plush nose, sweet vanillin oak. Soft ripe plum and berry fruit with milk chocolate and truffle. Enveloping and complex with some early earthy development showing for such a young wine. Baking spice, bayleaf, cocoa, coffee. Very well trimmed palate with mid-weight flavours and good length finishing on noticeably fresh acidity. Smooth tannins provide flow and structure but don't dominate. Approachable and elegant but clearly able to develop in the mid-term