Jenny Dobson - 'Alick' Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Jenny Dobson - 'Alick' Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

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Description

Every family has its stalwart, the grape family has Cabernet Sauvignon and my family has Uncle Alick.

Dependable, distinguished, and debonair. A tower of strength. Alick could only be a Cabernet Sauvignon worthy of ageing.

The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are grown organically on dry stony soils of Hawkes Bay, the vines are gnarly and cling to life with a determination to flourish.

Complex and exciting, dark berries, dried herbs and wet gravel flavours and aromas. Bold and elegant on the palate. This is a cabernet sauvignon that will mature with elegance.

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Winegrowing

Planted in 1999 the Cabernet sauvignon is grown organically in free draining, deep gravel soils.

I follow traditional, gentle, and low intervention, attentive winemaking. Fermentation with indigenous yeast, gently working of the fermenting wine, post ferment maceration, basket pressing and ageing in French oak barrels until the tannins are elegant and the flavours refined. Alick is bottled unfiltered.

Alick will reward careful cellar ageing.

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Jenny Dobson

Jenny Dobson is one of this country’s most accomplished winemakers, known in her early vinous life as winemaker at Chateau Senejac in the Medoc, a position most unusual for a woman then. Her arrival into the Hawke’s Bay has seen her finger in many viticultural and vinification pies but her main job was as winemaker at Sacred Hill. Her solo project is her own label under her name: Jenny Dobson where she creates stunning Fiano, a white grape originally from Campania in southern Italy, in the Hawkes Bay.

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Merlot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc blend

A partial 'Bordeaux' blend, only missing cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot.  The plumminess of merlot blend with the boldness of malbec and the structure and fine tannins of cabernet franc.

 

--------THE REGION--------

Hawkes Bay

Sunny Hawkes Bay is along the eastern coast of New Zealand's north island. It is here where some of the most fruit-forward wines come from. They are known for their tropical Chardonnays and their juicy reds from the excellent Bordeaux wines to the peppery Syrahs.