Yeringberg (Cabernet blend) 2022

A wonderful year for our Yeringberg blend. This wine will be fascinating to observe as it evolves over time. An elegant and complex nose of blackcurrant, violet and liquorice is interwoven with notes of Christmas cake, tapenade and graphite. The palate, generous and pure, laden with blue & black fruits, is understated and beautifully delineated. It has mid-weight elegance, seamlessly embedded tannins, and a long, refreshingly generous finish.

A very low yielding, high quality vintage producing excellent, intense wines in small quantities.

This year’s blend comprises Cabernet Sauvignon 63%, Merlot 16%, Petit Verdot 10%, Malbec 7%, Cabernet Franc 4%. A little more Cabernet Sauvignon than usual and a lot less Cabernet Franc. Yields across the five varieties varied from 0.5 to 2.3 tonnes per acre. Yeringberg is always a ‘field’ blend, ie the vineyard and the vintage determine the final blend, not the winemaker. The fruit is all hand picked, and carefully sorted. The grapes are destemmed and crushed, and fermented in small open top tanks and hand plunged. Time on skins ranged from 12-21 days. The wine was aged in French oak barriques for 21 months, about 40% new.