Dog Ridge Original Plantings Cabernet Sauvignon 2004

Dog Ridge Original Plantings Cabernet Sauvignon 2004Dog Ridge is one of my favourite McLaren Vale wineries, producing superb wines from their 1940s plantings of Shiraz, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon, and value packed wines at the other end of the spectrum. "The combination of a great vintage, 65+ year old vines and yields of 1. 5 tonnes per acre has resulted in something quite special; a salivating thought for those of you already familiar with the unbelievably high quality of wine that comes out of

Beyond next year

by which time one will have a national treasure on one's hands

and highly defined

Dhillon owns an extraordinary microcosm of Burgundy-inspired landscape within one of Australia's coolest wine regions

The current 2020 vintage is the 34th release of this wine since 1984 – the wine was not made in 1989

best around 5

There are 11 approved communes in the Barolo production zone

The choice says much about the Browns

providing further structural support and some cinnamon spice on the sapid finish

blackberries and a fairly prominent herbaceous undertone

fruit hand harvested and picked when possible according to the lunar cycle

and while various efforts have been made to revive it