The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon

Name: The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon
Brand: Yalumba
SKU: YALCIG226-BT
Price: 32.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

$32

(RRP $40 ) 750mL Bottle

The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon is named after the unique cigar-shaped strip of rich terra rossa soil that defines the famous Coonawarra wine region. It is a contemporary medium to full bodied wine with rich fruit characters and soft round tannins, making it one of our most popular fine wines.

Tasting Note Dark red plum in colour, medium to full depth in hue. The bouquet shows bright cherry, chocolate and musk fruit aromas supported by savoury cedar oak. The palate is vibrant with blueberries and rhubarb, balanced by chocolate and mint. The tannins have a mouth-filling praline texture on the long and lingering finish.

Terroir Our Menzies Estate Vineyard lies in the heart of Coonawarra on the famous terra rossa soil over limestone. This valuable patch of land is the holy grail of all Cabernet purists; with soil vivid red in colour, it is perfect for growing exceptional full-bodied red wines.

Treatment Matured for 18 months in 18% new French barriques, balance in 1 year and older French and Hungarian barriques and hogsheads.

Accolades

Quality fruit and richness of oak

Named for the strip of Terra Rossa soils shaped like a cigar that runs through Coonawarra. As it is with the power of suggestion, the Cigar invokes the savoury spices of tobacco, cedar and sandalwood. It's layered with bilberries, blackcurrants and prunes, too. Some coffee and poppy seed tones. It is a wine in the Yalumba line-up that stands out for its heavily laden spices and muscular tannins. Oak is significant and will allow the wine longevity in the cellar. If you gravitate to the seduction of quality fruit and richness of oak, this is for you.

Shanteh Wale

Ray Jordan's Top 100 Reds under 50

Quintessential Coonawarra cabernet. It’s stylish and elegant, with underlying power and finesse, that is part of this famous cigar-shaped strip of the great cabernet region in South Australia. This is all about the soils and their impact on the wine. This wine introduces a leafy, slightly chalky, limestone character threading through it. Wrapping around what is the warm, powerful flesh of blackcurrant cabernet. This is a superb wine with excellent long-term cellaring.

Ray Jordan

Poised, polished and classic cabernet

Briary, brambly, cassis, dark plum, ferrous earth, cedar, spice and dried herbs. Textured, layered, mouth-filling and long. Lashings of briary dark fruits, nutty oak, granular tannin and snappy acidity. Poised, polished and classic cabernet.

Aaron Brasher

...Expressive, leafy-edged fruit characters of blackberry and blackcurrant with hints of briar, licorice, dark soy, Old Jamaica chocolate, tobacco and clove. Fleshy and sweetly fruited with grippy, sandy tannins, bright acidity and a lingering trail of cassis and spice on the finish.

DAVE BROOKS
HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION, 3 AUGUST 2022

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The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon