Briar Ridge Big Bully Cabernet Stonefields Vineyard 2022

Wrattonbully Cabernet from a very fine vintage, the wine spent a year and a half in French oak barriques, 40% new. Hard to imagine that the team saw this as anything other than a wine for the long haul. It has serious promise and should enjoy a very long life. Under diam. An opaque maroon hue, the nose is full of plums, mulberries, mocha, a hint of aniseed, cigar boxes and supported by deftly handled oak. It is seamless, finely balanced and the intensity is maintained all through the very long finish. Ever-so-fine tannins, give the wine good grip as the palate sees the emergence of notes of coffee grinds and cloves. A ten year proposition.