Adelina Cabernet Franc 2022 (6 Bottles) Clare, SA

by Principal Wines

$234.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

94 Points WineFront + 93 Points Wine Advocate

Adelina’s Cabernet Franc is drawn from the Smith vineyard on Polish Hill River’s Jolly Way, one of Clare’s first-ever certified organic vineyards. The 20-something-year-old vines sit on grey, brown loam over shale and sandy limestone at 460 metres above sea level.

“Raspberry, sour cherry, floral, some basil, a dusting of cocoa. It’s medium-bodied, clean, a sort of cool feel, which makes it very refreshing, tight fine stony tannin, red berries and redcurrant, a smattering of dried herb and orange peel, and a bright but flavoursome finish of excellent length and clarity, a sort of cranberry crunch to close. Delightful.” 94 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

Keeping it simple in the shed, the fruit was hand-picked, then destemmed and crushed. Fermentation was on skins for just eight days before pressing, and maturation was for eight months in neutral 700-litre French oak. For only its third release, it is still early days for this new bottling and it is certainly travelling in the right direction. It’s delicious now and will continue to improve in the bottle—if you can keep your hands off it!

 

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About Adelina

We are a small vineyard and winery in the Springfarm sub-region of Clare, set amongst one of the most historically relevant winery and vineyards in Australia.

We run our farm with organic principles. The plantings of well established Shiraz, Grenache and Pedro Ximenez, some dating back to the turn of the 20th century and recent plantings, of Shiraz, Mataro and Malbec are NASAA certified.

We also work with a very small group of grape growers in Clare and the Adelaide Hills whom grow fruit for our non-estate wines. The winery is rustic in a sense of mod-cons and mechanisation, where the most elaborate piece of equipment would be the coffee machine.

At present we’re focusing our efforts on the vineyard, unfortunately tastings are not available.

Principal Wines

We are wine lovers with no agenda, except to work with people who grow grapes, and to put their wines into the hands of people we respect.

We bring many years’ collective experience working in restaurants and winemaking to Principal Wine and think we have a pretty good idea of how a great glass of wine tastes.

Things change all the time in the world of wine, but our core values always remain the same - to work with people who make their wine in the vineyard, to have fine wine to sell to places we’d like to drink ourselves, and to provide excellent service.