2022 Fruit Day Vanya

2022 harvest was the warmer vintage we were looking for after the cooler 2021. The wetter cooler growing season was followed by a warm dry harvesting time. Perfect for old vine 51 year old cabernet sauvignon at Cullen’s. Being dry farmed and then being given the moisture needed for perfect ripening .Yields were low and berries small giving beautifully balanced fruit and tannin makeup with stunning aromatics. The cabernet sauvignon vines grown on the Scott Henry trellising allowing sunlight to access the fruit from berry set onwards pushed phenolic and
physiological ripeness. Flavour, tannin, acid, ph, all coming together at the same time.

This 100% cabernet sauvignon was harvested in late march on a fruit day, with, Venus, Mars and Saturn in conjunction.

It was crushed to 300 litre beeswax (our very own from Cullen vineyard) amphora and fermented with 46 days on skins before pressing into a new flower day puncheon. The wine was aged in oak for 7 months before bottling on fruit day.