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Brand's Laira "Blockers" Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Brand's Laira "Blockers" Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Brand’s Laira is an iconic winery, nestled in the heart of the famed “terra rossa” strip of the Coonawarra region in South Australia.
Steeped in heritage, our Laira Vineyard was planted back in 1893 and is one of the oldest working blocks in the region.
Brand’s Laira offers a range of elegant yet richly flavoured premium wines from this distinct region.

Our founder Eric Brand was one of the original ‘Blockers’ a term used to describe the landholders who sold their grapes to larger wineries in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
The wines have developed a reputation for expressing bold Coonawarra fruit flavours and delivering a powerful, yet elegant style.

VINTAGE CONDITIONS
Warm and dry spring weather led to a good even fruit set, and a slightly earlier vintage.
Moderate summer weather allowed for optimum flavour and colour development, leading to wines with outstanding colour and fine grained tannins.

WINEMAKING & MATURATION
Fermented on skins for 7 days with pumping and rolling twice a day to ensure optimum extraction of colour and flavour.
The wine was aged in new and old French and American oak barrels.

COLOUR
Deep garnet red.

NOSE/ AROMA
Deep dark classic berry fruits of cassis and blackberry accompanied by subtle oak displaying cashew nut and vanilla.

PALATE
Intense dark fruits with well integrated cashew nut and vanilla flavours derived from barrel fermentation and maturation.
Intense palate with powerful fine grained tannins and a long fine finish.

ANALYSIS
Alc/Vol 14.50% T.A 6.42g/L pH 3.42

PEAK DRINKING
Now and up to 10+ years