Blind Corner Quindalup Cabernet 2020

Blind Corner Quindalup Cabernet is a Cabernet Sauvignon made using the ripasso and appassimento techniques of Valpolicella.

Time spent making wine in Italy shows all over this range, and nowhere more than here. Margaret River Cabernet gets treated the way a Valpolicella producer treats Corvina: the base wine, from twenty-plus-year-old vines at both Quindalup and Wilyabrup, is foot-crushed and wild-fermented, then re-passed over the skins left behind by Bernard, the air-dried Amarone-style Cabernet from the same harvest. That dried fruit makes up about a tenth of the blend. A glug of Merlot goes in, maturation happens in used oak, and the wine is bottled unfiltered. There is nothing else quite like it on the Australian market.

Dense and faintly raisined at the edges, with black fruit, cocoa and dried herb over tannin that has been stretched long and soft. Serve at 17 to 18 degrees. Braised beef, osso buco, or aged pecorino.

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