Brash Higgins CBSV Cabernet Sauvignon Estate 2020
A pleasing combination of savoury and earthy flavours alongside ripe, sweet fruit. Blackcurrant and plum give way to notes of bay, cinnamon and vanilla, whilst the chewy tannic backbone gives substance and structure.
The Cabernet grapes come from Brash Higgins’ own twenty-six-year-old organic Omensetter vineyard, planted on limestone and clay soils.
The grapes were harvested by hand and then passed to open-top fermenters where they fermented using native yeast, with an eighteen day maceration period. Following this, the wine was passed to 300-litre French oak barrels, one of which was new and the rest between two and ten years old, where it aged for fifteen months.
Brash Higgins is the alias of Brad Hickey, a Chicago native with a serious wanderlust, whose career as a sommelier and food writer has taken him all over the world. Having spent years talking about and selling wine, the next step in the journey was to make it, landing him in McLaren Vale to work a vintage. It was here that the wanderer finally settled, marrying local vigneron Nicole Thorpe, with whom he developed his eponymous label. Using grapes from their own organic Omensetter Vineyard as well as fruit sourced from like-minded growers, they have crafted a range of wines which allow Brash’s experimental nature and pure instinct for flavour to shine through.
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