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Trophy – Best Museum Wine of Show McLaren Vale Wine Show 2021
Gold – Adelaide Royal Wine Show 2018 & 2019
Gold – McLaren Vale Wine Show 2020 & 2021
Gold – Perth Royal Wine Show 2018 & 2020
Gold Decanter Wine World 2018
95 Points by James Halliday in the James Halliday Wine Companion 2019 on 8/1/2018
Small parcels were basket-pressed from one vineyard to provide 95% of the wine, the remainder open-fermented, all basket-pressed into French barriques for 14 months maturation. The wine is a richly textured and structured carpet of blackcurrant fruit, cabernet tannins dancing a jig at every point along the way to the finish. Oak makes a contribution, but it is the least of the three pillars.
Intense red with dark crimson edge. Fragrant McLaren Vale Cabernet with ripe plum, mulberry and licorice with tobacco leaf, sage and black olive adding interest to the bouquet. Densely fruited palate with dark plum flesh, ripe mulberry & dark chocolate flooding the palate. Complexed by balanced cedary oak influence & coupled with fine grained tannins leads to a Cabernet with beautiful rich flesh with classic varietal structure and persistence on the palate
Cellaring: 13 to 15 years
Reynella has a long history of making outstanding wines from Cabernet Sauvignon from McLaren Vale under the Reynella Basket Pressed label. The 2016 continues this tradition from an outstanding vintage with had picked, berry sorted and open fermented small parcels that are basket pressed to the highest quality French oak.
Vintage 2016 proved to be quite unique with high quality fruit being delivered to the winery with well above average yields. Cool winter and warm spring was preceded by a late rainfall event that boosted vine growth and refreshed soils. Closer to harvest bumper crops were aided into ripening by mild-summer temperatures and sporadic rain. Picking at optimum maturity has resulted in wines which display vibrant bright colours with ripe flavour profiles, rounded flavoursome palates and soft fine tannins.
About Reynella Wines
Established in 1838 by John Reynell, the Reynella winery enjoys the unrivalled prestige of the birthplace of South Australia’s internationally renowned wine industry, and is the proud home of the State’s oldest operating wine cellar.
Accolade Wines traces its beginning to Thomas Hardy and Sons, a company founded in 1853 which grew to become Australia's largest winemaker. The company headquarters are in Adelaide, South Australia. Accolade has more than 1700 employees around the world, with operations in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, mainland Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
