Artwine Pack Leader Cabernet Franc 2021 (6 Bottles) Adelaide Hills

by Artwine, Woodside SA

$310.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

A beautiful wine that will entice you in from the first aroma’s of rose petals, blackberries, raspberries with a hint of spice.The fruit flavours continue through to the palate with splashes of leafy herbs and a delicate tannin structure.

Tasting Notes
Be enticed by the first aroma’s of rose petals, blackberries, raspberries with a hint of spice.The fruit flavours continue through to the palate with splashes of leafy herbs and a delicate tannin structure. Medium bodied low tannins and good acidity.

Awards
Silver Medal – AAVWS + 7 x Bronze Medals, 2 x Royal Melbourne, Clare Valley, Boutique Wine Awards, 2 x Winestate, AAVWS.

Food Pairing Notes
Medium-bodied wines like Cabernet Franc can pair with a wide variety of foods due to their natural high acidity and slightly reduced tannins. Delicious paired with tomato-based dishes, vinegar-based sauces or rich veggies like black lentils. Cabernet Franc lights up matched to herbs in your cuisine.

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The Story of Artwine

TWO x TROPHIES – Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show, Best Dry Red & ANZ Boutique Wine Awards – Best Other Red Plus 4 x Gold Medals

The Artwine cellar door is on Bird in Hand Road in Woodside, in the Adelaide Hills. Glen and Judy purchased the vineyard in 2011, before building their home and cellar door in 2013.

In the space of just a few short years, the team at Artwine has been the proud recipients of 37 trophies, including Wine of Show, Best White and International Judges wine to watch for our 2018 Grüner Veltliner at the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show and in 2022 and 2019 Best Alternative White at the Sydney Royal for our Wicked Stepmother Fiano. In 2021 our Grumpy Old Man Grenache was awarded an Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show trophy for ‘Best Single Vineyard Other Red Variety’ and we were honoured with the prestigious Chair of Judges Award, Clare Valley for our 2020 Cabernet Franc and Best Other Red for our Hola Tempranillo from the Aust & NZ Boutique Wine Awards.

BUT……. our BIGGEST and most triumphant year yet has been 2022 with a massive 7 trophies awarded 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Artwine has won the following:

Best Other Red -ANZ Boutique Wine Awards – Pack Leadrer Cabernet Franc 21
Best Other White – ANZ Boutique Wne Awards – In the Groove,Grüner Veltliner 2022
Best Alternative White – Sydney Royal Wine Show – Wicked Stepmother Fiano 2022
Best Rosé – Sydney Royal Wine Show – Temptress Rosé 2022
Best Grüner Veltliner – Adelaide Hills Wine Show – In the Groove Grüner Veltliner 2022
Best Other Red – Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show – Pack Leader Cabernet Franc 2021
AND ……….. The Winestate Magazine Best White Alternative of the Year (we had 3 in the top 5 – with Gruner taking the trophy but Arneis and Fiano close behind).

Artwine, Woodside SA

Our Artwine vision and the passion that drives us is to produce new-emerging (alternative) varieties that offer not only exciting, food friendly, delicious wines but more imprtantly that they are climatically suited to our changing climate.

We constantly look ahead and are in no doubt that the future of Australian wine is in its diversity and the ability to produce lighter, more food friendly wines hence our range of Italian and Spanish varieties that are proving to be an enormous success in the vineyard and with our customers. Creating "New World Wines" from the "Old World" with the Australian terroir point of difference.

We produce 14 estate grown varieties from our vineyard in the Clare Valley and the cooler climate of our Adelaide Hills vineyard, which houses our Cellar Door and Tasting Room.

Our varieties are Pinot Grigio, Fiano, Viognier, Graciano, Montepulciano, Tempranillo, Prosecco, Albariño, Grûner Veltliner, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Riesling and Old Bush Vine Grenache.