2022 Pirramimma 'Border Clan' McLaren Vale Cabernet

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

The 2022 season in McLaren Vale turned out to be nigh on perfect, producing wines of elegance and charm, with stylish expression of the fruit. This is cabernet, and it displays all of the dark fruit characters from the nose of blackberry and blackcurrant, with a lifted floral violet-like note. The palate is deeply powerful, yet it's elegant and most stylish, with a smooth, seamless integration of oak and tannin supporting what is some obviously impressive fruit. Balanced and poised through to a sustained long finish, this captures so much about what McLaren Vale can do in good years

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Ken Gargett - Winepilot

Deep ruby/maroon in colour, this is exciting stuff. From an excellent vintage in McLaren Vale, the wine has impressive oak integration, which is still proceeding. A wine which is a slow burn, and promises much for the future. The nose reveals notes of mocha, coffee beans, licorice, spices, root vegetables, chocolate, vanilla and cigar box touches. Delicious drinking, a very fine example of a warm climate Cabernet Sauvignon, benefiting from slightly cooler conditions than sometimes encountered here. This is richly flavoured, has good focus, is well balanced, with excellent length and sleek tannins. Enjoy it over the next ten to fifteen years