2022 Single Vineyard 'Big Bully' Cabernet Sauvignon
  
      
  
    Our 'Big Bully' represents a small parcel of Cabernet Sauvignon selected from our estate grown Wrattonbully vineyard. A rich, ripe and powerful wine.
 
  
  
  
    
    
      
  
    Classic cigar box, tobacco and hints of tomato stalk nuance a dense bouquet. Structure and power to boot, a ripe spectrum of red and dark fruits alight the senses and the fine-grained tannins engage to deliver a big, bullish like wine that has wonderful potential to age.
  
     
   
  
    
    
      
  
    Charred rib eye steak or hard cured meats.
  
     
   
  
    
    
      
  
    Harvested in the cool of night before undergoing a cold soak through transportation to the Hunter Valley winery. The wine was fermented in closed fermentation tanks to retain a higher alcohol that helps drive this brute of a wine. The wine finished primary and secondary (MLF) fermentation in stainless steel tanks before being transferred to a 40:60 blend of new and seasoned French oak barriques sourced from only the grandest French cooperages. The wine matured in oak for 18 months
before being lightly fined to retain the bullish tannin and colour.
  
     
   
  
    
    
      
    
   
  
    
    
      
  
    2022 was a very memorable vintage for all the right reasons with wonderful ripening conditions that produced grapes with intense colour, flavour and tannin. Cool nights retained natural acidity and the
warm days provided ideal ripening.