2022 Craggy Range 'Sophia' Merlot Cabernet
Lamont's Cottesloe
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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
Critic Reviews
95 Points - 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”
Wine Details & Information
Vintage: 2022
Varietal / Style: Cabernet Blends
Producer: Craggy Range
Country: New Zealand
Region: Gimblett Gravels
Bottle size (ml): 750ml
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