{"product_id":"thorn-clarke-william-randell-cabernet-sauvignon-2010-magnum","title":"Thorn Clarke William Randell Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 (magnum)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eCOMMENTS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eDeep red in colour. The nose is lifted and expressive with lovely Christmas cake and mint characters along with black olives and tobacco leaf adding complexity. The palate is medium to full bodied with blueberry and hints of cassis as the primary fruit flavours. The palate has great poise with the vibrant fruit, spicy French oak and fine tannin structure all wonderfully balanced, and the wine finishes with great length of fruit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eVINIFICATION NOTES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eThe fruit was harvested at night. Fermentation was carried out in a variety of small capacity fermenters. After pressing the parcels were filled to French oak for maturation. The wine was racked after six months and the parcels were blended to form the final wine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eMATURATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eThe wine was matured in a temperature controlled barrel hall for 16 months in French hogsheads (barrels).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eVINTAGE NOTES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eAverage winter rainfall in 2009 resulted in good soil moisture in the 2010 growing season. This combined with moderate weather conditions through most of the growing season allowed for good fruit set and canopy development. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eHARVESTED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eMarch 2010\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\"Full crimson-purple; while quite soft overall, both in fruit and tannin terms, the wine is full-bodied and fleshy, with dark chocolate and licorice joining the blackcurrant fruit and cedary oak. 14% alc.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"style8\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003eJames Halliday's TOP 100 over $20 (November 2012),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e 97 pts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr class=\"style13\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This Eden Valley wine displays classic Cabernet structure. It’s full-bodied and powerful, but never jammy or soft, like some Barossa Cabs. Vanilla accents pristine cassis fruit, which shows enormous depth. 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