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  • 5 STAR WINERY‘Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity’

    JAMES HALLIDAY (AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANION)

    www.robertoatley.com.au

    Finisterre: [Ends of the Earth] – focussing on single-variety, single-region wines with an emphasis on selected special sites thatdisplay our preferred characteristics. Hand-harvesting, fruit sorting and intuitive winemaking delivers small-parcel

    wines with clarity, purity, great texture and flavour expression. ANDREW (SANDY) OATLEY

    Layered earth and cassis. Silky texture. Sweet dark fruits.Larry Cherubino

    CULTIVATION

    REGION: Margaret River, Western Australia

    LOCATION: Wilyabrup

    VINEYARD: Pedestal

    AVERAGE VINE AGE: 15 years

    PRUNING: Verticaltrellis

    GEOLOGY: Laterite (gravelly loam)

    VINIFICATION

    WINEMAKER: Larry Cherubino

    VARIETAL: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

    WINEMAKING: Berrysorted,noacidadditions,threeweeksprimarypost-fermentmaceration

    YEASTS: Various

    OAK: 18monthsinnewandusedFrenchbarriques

    STATISTICS

    ALCOHOL: 14.0% RESIDUAL SUGAR: 0 g/L

    PH: 3.76 CELLARING: 8-10years

    TOTAL ACIDITY: 5.18 g/l PRODUCTION: 554cases(6)

    MAJOR ACCOLADES

    Vintage 2016: 95pts Halliday

    Vintage2015: 96ptsHalliday,91ptsSuckling

    Vintage 2014: 91pts Halliday, 92pts Jordan


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