Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2021
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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French born winemaker, Xavier Bizot, knows what he wants from the Cabernet Franc grape. He builds the wine from the ground up upon a solid base of well-ripened fruit (14.5% alc.). He lets the grape’s natural lifted aromatics rise to join sweetly spiced cherry and plum scents. A splash of spicy Shiraz – 9% – helps set everything off. He allows the wine to build in the mouth, following cola, cacao, red liquorice and red fruited paths of flavour. Time in old French barriques and foudres (14 months) lends an additional layer of interest and textural integration. It’s good to see Cabernet Franc being taken as seriously as this and given its own time to shine.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
