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DEVIL'S LAIR WINES Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2008 Bottle
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DEVIL'S LAIR WINES Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2008 Bottle
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2008 Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot, Margaret River - Great Wine Estate of Western Australia - Release date – Around November 2010
The 2008 Cabernet Merlot is looking impressive with intense crushed blackcurrant/cedar/violet/ garrigue aromas, plenty of fruit generosity, underlying savoury oak and loose knit fine grainy tannins. Crawford says he will bottle the wine a touch earlier to preserve fruit quality and freshness. The 2008 will be a very approachable style possessing plenty of flavour, proportion and finesse. The tannins are really are of good quality. Indeed it is in every respect the best vintage ever from this estate.
Phil Sexton established Devil’s Lair in 1985, with his first vineyard plantings in 1981. The vineyards are located on varying Margaret River soils from pockets of gravelly loams – ideal for Cabernet Sauvignon, to loamy soils especially suited to Chardonnay. The vines are all trellised on a simple vertically shoot positioned system, mostly in protected north-easterly aspects. The fruit is machine and hand picked depending on site and wine style. The Cabernet Sauvignon is fermented in static, stainless steel and pump-over tanks at relatively warm ferments. Oliver Crawford is keen to retain fruit definition and freshness. Fifty per cent of the blend is given extended skin maceration before being drained and pressed into 50% new and 50% 1-year-old oak for a period of 18 months. The Cabernet Sauvignon, which comprises a proportion of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, is emerging as a definitive southern Margaret River style with pure cassis black chocolate aromas, touches of mint and long sinewy tannins. Devil’s Lair is now fully owned by the Fosters Group.
Andrew Caillard MW
