Charles Melton - Cabernet Sauvignon | Australian Red Wine

Good falls kept on right through Christmas into the New Year ensuring excellent soil moisture levels and solid crop levels. A dry mild harvest period was ideal with very little heat, clear days and cool nights. Whole berries from our oldest estate grown Cabernet block were tipped directly from the sorting system of the machine harvester bypassing the crusher. An 8 day maceration followed before the free run and pressings were run into 100% new French oak barriques where the malo-lactic fermentation took place. The wine remained on lees with monthly battonage for 30 months before settling prior to bottling.