Description / Reviews
// 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc
"Until now, we have resisted the temptation to make a wine from one of McLaren Vale’s historically important varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon. We love the Cabernet wines from the valley floor. They’re plush and intense; darker fruited; but our ambition has been to make wines with high-toned, aromatic varietal expression. A little more medium bodied with bright clarity of fruit. We think we have found a nice balance between traditional McLaren Vale generosity of flavour and some slightly cooler varietal tones in Clarendon.
In our estimation, we had inherited some 35-year-old Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc vines in just the right spot to produce an outstanding Cabernet wine." - Bekkers, Winemaker
"Hand picked from the steeply sloped, contour-planted proprietary Clarendon site, a '90s vineyard originally planted in the 19th century that promises much excitement in the future. Emmanuelle and Toby Bekkers believe this part of McLaren Vale is ideal for cabernet (this has 10% cabernet franc, too), yielding varietally on-point, elegant wines. It’s hard to argue with that based on this evidence. Fragrant, classically leafy but ripe, poised and elegant, with mulberry, currant, pencil shavings, pepper, cedar, a maritime kombu/nori note and a lilt of violet. It’s deeply flavoured but so pure, elegant and unforced. This takes McLaren Vale cabernet to new heights." - 97 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
"This is the first release of a Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon. It was grown exclusively on the Bekkers contoured vineyard at Clarendon. It’s made mostly with Cabernet Sauvignon though there’s also a small inclusion of Cabernet Franc.
This is an elegant, dusty cabernet with length to burn. It’s a wine that will mature beautifully. It’s fragrant, drifted with dried herbs and green olives, and presents as both boysenberried and curranty in a fresh-faced way. It oozes confidence in that it doesn’t try too hard; it’s a quality wine, you take it as it is. It’s also a wine that builds as it breathes; the fruit swells, the tannin stretches, the finish extends like a trombone as it heads for the deep notes. There’s something ultra classical about this wine." - 95 Points, Campbell Mattinson
