The Palate is a fine medium bodied wine with excellent intensity of dark cherry fruit flavours that combine with lovely soft tannins on the palate. The use of Oak has contributed to the wine displaying excellent length and body with a structure that builds as the wine opens up.
A seriously easy drinking style with attractive, yet savoury style perfect with food although I like to entertain some Delice Cheese and pepper crackers to compliment to a perfect scale of righteousness alongside lingering fruit notes.
Awards and Accolades
☆☆☆☆☆ Winery - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion
Commended - International Wine Challenge (UK) 2016 Commended - Decanter World Wine Awards (UK) 2016
From the Winery
The 2014 vintage was noted for its dry, mild conditions and below average rainfall. These dry conditions continued right through the growing season and produced red wines that have great colour and fine tannins.
Approximately 53 percent of this wine was matured in French oak barriques and 19% in American oak barriques for ten months.
The Founder’s Block range is styled for everyday enjoyment, inviting a modern generation of wine consumers to explore the pleasures of Coonawarra wine. The wines are grounded in the past but genuinely focused on the present. They are honest, fruit driven, harmonious and shine with pure Coonawarra character.
Don't Pay: $24.00
WBW Rating: 92/100
Closure: Cork
Region: Coonawarra, SA
Winemaker: Wayne Stehbens
Drink now until: 2019
Alc/Vol: 13.5 %
