Passing Clouds The Angel Bendigo Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 750mL

The Angel is a blend of our finest Cabernet Sauvignon barrels each year. After twelve months in oak, barrel selection occurs, with sampling to create the optimal blend. Once selected, the barrels are aged for an additional 5 months, after bottling 12 months of bottle maturation occurs to allow for some development, in a wine that regularly shows well at 20 years of age. The resultant wine is a sophisticated and extremely age-worthy expression of a cooler climate Cabernet Sauvignon.

Aroma: Potent aromatics: intense kirche and fresh blackberry, with underlying bramble, picture walking by fresh blackberry patch on a crisp morning. Savoury spice and a hint of sawn timber that will become polished with age. The nose continues to deepen with time in glass, leather, licorice and even candied cinnamon akin to redskin lollies. A transformative nose; evoking entire notions: blueberry pie to hot cocoa, salumi to confit olives.

Palate: The palate is showing incredibly bright with freshening acidity, and crunchy red and black fruits. The tannin has a youthful whip to it, but this simply leads us to believe this will be an all-time long-lived Angel. A finish that is savoury, delightful and unending.

Colour: Deep ruby with a purple hue

Notes: The fruit is 100% de-stemmed and hand sorted before being traditionally vinified in open stainless-steel fermenters, which are hand plunged twice a day. A portion of batches saw post ferment maceration. All batches are matured in 100% French oak for 17 months. A barrel selection, and minimum of 12 months bottle maturation also occur.