Our Wines
2007 Allouran (Merlot / Cabernet Franc)
$25/bt
Description
The 2007 “Allouran” is a deep red black with a lifted nose of plums,
chocolate, blackcurrant and an exotic hint of a fine Cuban cigar. The palate is
rich and fully integrated with great fruit flavours and the finest of tannins,
giving in to a long delicious length. A wine that has the potential to age at
least 5-12 years, but you can be assured of the wine drinking well now.
If
drunk with food (which is certainly recommended as there are few greater
pleasures), we recommend rich beef and game dishes, as well as duck confit which
marries the weight of the wine with the texture of the meat.
Sealed under screwcap to ensure the wine made by us arrives to you as we
intended it to.
Reviews
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
“This was tasted back in January for The Big Red Wine Book 2009/10
and my notes have a score of 93-94. Mattinson chose the lower number
for publication, although curiously I had their 07 Reserve Merlot
(not in the book) a couple of points lower than his whopping 94
point rating.
Delightful - sweet grassy Franc married to rich plummy Merlot with
good nutty oak in support. Rich but controlled with some savoury
flavours and a general red fruitedness, firm tannin, freshness and
excellent length. Subtle mocha oak on exit. It all flows along
merrily merrily - like a dream. Brilliant price for a wine of this
quality.”
Rated : 94 Points
Tasted : Jan09
Alcohol : 14%
Price : $25
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2012 - 2020
The Wine Front
Technical Details
2007 was a red wine vintage that may go down as
one of the region’s best, perfect warm spring conditions led into a mild but
still warm summer that meant the grapes were perfectly ripe and full of flavour
the earliest in our short vineyards history. All of the vines had little to no
disease pressure and were not damaged by birds that miraculously left the vines
alone due to the proliferation of blossom from the surrounding Marri trees. A
wonderful year to be a vigneron!
The fruit was severely thinned prior to harvest,
and just prior to the first and only time we have used a mechanical harvester,
any grapes that were considered not good “enough to eat” were dropped on the
ground. The technical data on these grapes are as below:
Merlot:
Picked 15
March 2007
Total weight
7509 kg
Brix 24.8
pH 3.22
TA
5.60
Cabernet Franc:
Picked 24 March 2007
Total weight
3127 kg
Brix 24.8
pH
3.51
TA
4.60
We were fortunate enough to have Sharna Kowalczuk
from Vasse River Wines make our wine and she completed an exemplarily job with
our grapes from arrival through to bottling. The wine was fermented in a closed
vat and continuously “pumped over” to extract colour and tannins softly, with
ferment being completed after 10 days. The wine was pressed and placed in
French oak barrels and stored for 19 months. The final blend of grapes for this
wine was 66% Merlot and 33% Cabernet Franc – a classic St Emilion wine style of
the Bordeaux region of France.
