Bicknell FC Lance Old Vine Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Bicknell FC Lance Old Vine Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

$85.00

This is a wine that gets me unreasonably excited about Yarra cabernet. A tightrope walker, risk taker, the excitement coming from how close it gets to the edge. Mulberry fruit and leaf, cassis, cedar, rubbed rosemary. It’s the lithesome way it moves that excites. 142 dozen made. 12.7% alcohol. 97 points – Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian

 

From the Lance vineyard in St. Andrews and off a block planted in 1976. 100% whole berries and matured in older barriques for 11 months. A medium deep, bright crimson purple. On the bouquet there’s an exotic array of black cherry, blackcurrant pastilles, violets, lavender and dried herbs. This is medium bodied, the palate crunchy and saline, before finishing with gently ripe, persistent fruit tannins and very bright acidity. An elegant, medium-bodied wine that will be a joy to drink now and over the next decade.96 Points – Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

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Bicknell FC is the label of Nicky Harris and David Bicknell, chief winemaker at Oakridge. David Bicknell is one of Australia’s greatest winemakers and we have had many a superb cellared bottle contest between Oakridge and Bicknell FC.

All the fruit is from a close planted vineyard at Gladysdale, planted in 1988. This is an exceptionally cool site, perfect for making fresh, intense and vivid wines.You could not have hoped for a better spot in the Upper Yarra. The site has great diurnal range, warm days and cool nights, and despite the elevation is able to consistently produce full flavored and fleshy wines due to its rich volcanic soil. Tiny quantities only, with 1.Ha of Chardonnay and 1.5ha of Pinot Noir, with a few hundred dozen made in any given vintage.

Winemaking is simple and classic. Wild unhurried cool ferments, absolutely no additions apart from small quantities of sulfur, aging in used wood and for the reds, minimal punchdowns. Casks are rigorously finished up and the maturing process is kept short, retaining freshness and a certain structural angularity so well suited to Yarra Valley Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

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