Three Fates - Cabernet Franc 2023

Three Fates - Cabernet Franc 2023

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From the late ripening Noetzli family vineyard in Maraekakaho, Hawke’s Bay, where Three Fates have been working since 2020. The combination of site, soils, and clone combine to produce magnificently ripe Cabernet Franc with a distinctive freshness.

Handpicked, 100% destemmed, 50% foot stomped, with a natural fermentation in a single open-top fermenter. 

In it’s youth, this is a bright and juicy wine packed full of raspberry, cherry and plum flavours that can be enjoyed chilled through the summer of 23/24. With some time in bottle, this will develop into a more serious red with violet, cola, and baking spice characters coming out to play.

ALC: 12.5%
Contains sulphites

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Three Fates

The Three Fates Story


Three Fates is the winegrowing and winemaking project of Holly Girven Russell, Casey Motley, and Hester Nesbitt. In June 2020 the group took on the farming of a small hillside vineyard in Maraekakaho, Hawke's Bay. With fruit quality and vine health as the focus, they were delighted to have a brilliant growing season for their debut. 

All three have spent years chasing the sun; following ripening fruit to cellars across the world from California to Burgundy, England to Canada, Austria to the Northern Rhone, and a few pit stops in Australia and New Zealand. They've seen winemaking on all sorts of scales, but are united in their approach to focus on careful, gentle winemaking. Respect is shown to the fruit, letting the grapes show themselves through fermentation and into the bottle with little intervention necessary along the way.

Outside the winery, the Three Fates team has a mutual interest in food, travel, and culture. There's always a holiday being planned, an art gallery to visit, a music festival to attend, and a laundry list of restaurants to try or recipes to cook. Three Fates wines are made to be enjoyed in good company over a delicious meal.

 

In Greek Mythology the Three Fates, or Moirai, were the incarnations of destiny. They controlled the mother thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. 

Clotho (spinner) spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle, Lachesis (allotter) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod, Atropos (inevitable) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time was come, she cut their life-thread with her shears.

We embody the Morai as we bring the dormant vineyard to life in spring and weave our way through the season until the thread is cut and our vinous bounty becomes wine. Salut!

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Hawkes Bay

Vines were first planted in 1851 by Marist missionaries and Hawke’s Bay enjoys a significant international reputation for producing some of the country’s best wines, red and white.

A relatively large and diverse region capable of producing a wide range of varieties to a very high standard, Hawke’s Bay is best known for its Red Blends and Chardonnay but aromatic whites are consistently good and Syrah is incredibly impressive.

Hawke’s Bay is home to an outstanding wine tourism culture and offers a wide variety of cellar door experiences as well as regular food and wine festivals.

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