2014 Museum

“Crafted from our best organically farmed blocks, this is a truly timeless wine, the result of the idyllic 2014 growing season; a perfect harmony of tightly wound, gravelly tannins, acid backbone and generous, complex fruit character. It will benefit from long term cellaring or, for the impatient, decanting.”
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TIM SHAND, CHIEF WINEMAKER

TASTING NOTES
Dark blackcurrant, perfumed florals, cocoa, olive
Youthful, balanced, tight acid, fine tannins
Traditional roast beef with all the trimmings
French oak, 18 months, 50% new and 50% two y.o.
Dark ruby red
VINTAGE
RECOMMENDED CELLARING
PREVIOUS VINTAGES
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
Early winter chilling and above average rainfall led to complete dormancy, even budburst and uniform vine growth. With warm days, cool nights and only 11.5mm rainfall over summer, this was one of our best and driest preludes to vintage. Fruit ripened consistently and retained excellent natural acidity, with lower Baumés, bright flavours and great varietal expression.
With fantastic ripening towards the end of the growing season, the 2012 vintage produced a cabernet that is looking incredibly bright and youthful. A wine of great structure, complexity and depth, that still has many years of cellaring ahead.
The warm growing season provided ideal conditions to craft a rich, complex Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot. Currently sitting in a superb drinking window, with juicy, sweet dark berry fruit notes still in prime position and just a hint of what’s to come as the wine softens into earthy, chocolatey maturity. The wine's richness, complexity and elegant, chalky tannins are best exposed by decanting. Drink now – 2026. 2010
Ripe, soft dark berry fruit, black olives and characteristic Margaret River bay leaf notes dominate in this low yielding, warm season wine. A wine of great fruit complexity, now nicely softening into secondary character, with ripe, chunky tannins and a savoury, toasty oak influence. Drink now to 2023.
The warm, dry 2007 vintage produced a rich, ripe concentrated and structural wine which has now developed into softness, complexity and maturity. Deep garnet colour, well-developed fruit character of dried raisins, braised prunes and mulberry compote, pure dark chocolate, charry notes and a gravelly, earthy minerality combine to display a complex and beguiling nose which follows through on the palate. The texture is weighty and mouth-coating without feeling heavy, tannins are soft and velvety. Enjoy in the near future. Drink now to 2025.
One of our most Bordeaux-like Cabernets, this is a layered, complex wine displaying lovely dark fruits in the blackberry spectrum, savoury bayleaf character and hints of chocolate, balanced by finely integrated French oak. The soft, chalky tannins encourage drinking now, but will reward those who can cellar a little longer.