Purple Hands Wines Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

From some of the oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines still growing anywhere. This excels in Barossa Cabernet elegance. Bruise purple in colour. A nose filled with smoky blueberry and blackberry fruit, fine pencil shavings and pastille on the pull away. Varietal after-dinner mint, touches of vanilla oak, heady violets and silty earth complete the picture. Finely knitted tannins underpin a silky wine of exceptional concentration. Demonstrates a precise length through the juicy finish with a ferrous steely line. Top notch Barossa Cabernet indeed.

Regan Drew

Regan is a regular wine columnist for the News Regional Media "Weekend" Magazine and digital "Life" sections. A graduate of the Australian Wine Research Institute's Advanced Wine Assessment Course #47 he was awarded with Distinction WSET Level 3 in Wine & Spirits, has been an Associate Judge for the New South Wine Awards plus a couple of little stints helping out in the Hunter Valley and Tasmania during vintages with small but quality winemakers.