Clear, garnet red with slight ruby reflections, showing slight evolution for a 2009 red
Clean, expressive, very ripe cassis and blackcurrant with peppery note, hints of chalk, generous and powerful oaking shadowing delicate Cabernet Franc red fruits at this stage, but may integrate with bottle ageing, cedar wood, pencil shavings, well defined.
Dry with dash of residual sugar, juicy, powerful and full bodied with savory notes, sour cherries, dark red plums, spicy oak, fresh with bright medium plus acidity, ripe, medium tannins, alcohol is high though at 14% abv and noticeable in the back throat, but there is enough freshness and fruit concentration to make the wine appealing.
This is by far Robertson district best single bottling Cabernet Franc to date, a wine to be followed. Now preferably served aerated/decanted and chill to 12 degrees Celsius, until 2017+
