The last Thursday of August each year is Cabernet Day...a global
celebration of The King of Grapes.
Tomorrow Australian boutique French wine importer, DiscoverVin, will celebrate
the 5th Annual Cabernet Day with Château
Haut Vigneau, 2009, a captivating, great value Pessac-Leognan
cabernet from Bordeaux, the home of cabernet
sauvignon.
International Cabernet Day (28 August) will focus on tasting and
talking about cabernet with social media as the platform to connect the global
conversation. Most of the action will take place on Twitter using the hashtag
#CabernetDay to link the conversation.
DiscoverVin’s Craig Underhill is urging cabernet fanciers to be part
of the day and to follow DiscoverVin’s cabernet tweets on @discovervin where
2009 Château Haut Vigneau in particular will be sniffing, swirling and
sipping its way across the Twittersphere.
‘This wine was one of Gourmet
Traveller Wine’s “Bordeaux
Beauties” in the current August/September edition and has scored 89/100 from
Wine Spectator‘, so it is something to tweet about – and tasting it is an even
better reason. So tweet up and tipple,” he says.
“The 2009 Château Haut Vigneau is complex and rich with sweet fruit, mocha and
beef-stock flavours, yet finely structured with good length. “Power and flesh
on the mid-palate,” said panelist Forrestal. It’s ready now but will age well for several years.”
The Producer
Situated in the commune of
Martillac, this 20-hectare property once belonged to Baron de Montesquieu.
Today, Mr. Eric Perrin owns the estate.
He set up a vast land clearing and plantation programme in the 1980s,
rejuvenating the vineyard from the ground up.
The Appellation
The appellation of Pessac-Leognan
was created in 1987 from the section of the Graves district south of Bordeaux
city. Some of the vineyards are surrounded by the development of the Bordeaux
suburbs. Pessac and Leognan, the key towns in the appellation, form part of the
suburban sprawl, with vineyards next to houses and industrial estates.
Graves means gravel and Bordeaux’s
reputation as a great wine region for Cabernet has been built on the gravel.
The red wines of Pessac-Leognan have
a rich and flamboyant style, developing deep and spicy flavours with age.
The Wine
Cabernet
Sauvignon (70%), Merlot (30%)
Cellaring Potential
Can
be enjoyed now but will keep for many years (2014-2025)
Our Tasting notes
A wine with very
pleasing aromas of black fruits (blackberries, black currant), red fruits
(raspberries) and with subtle roasted notes (grilled and smoky). Good fruit
weight and fine gravel tannins giving it a lovely mouth feel. Hints of minerals
and chocolate.
Its style typifies the
silky tannins, minerals and structure of the cabernet wines of Pessac-Leognan.
Who can honestly say a Dad wouldn't like a nice bottle of wine or two for Fathers Day?
