Estate 2024 Cabernet Franc
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Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, 94 Points - "It's beautifully lifted on the nose, showing dark cherry, floral, dried herb, game, and toasted almond characters. The palate displays succulent fruit flavours with fine texture and grainy tannins, making it sturdy and structured with a pleasingly dry finish."
COLOUR
Clean, clear dark cherry red with soft lilac - purple hues on the rim and swirl of moderate intensity.
NOSE
Clean youthful aromas of crushed raspberry, rhubarb conserve and a light toasted nougat background
PALATE
Clean medium bodied flavours of ripe strawberry and red plums across a smooth velvety tannin impression finishing with a moderate length of peppery bramble fruits.
WINEMAKING
The Cabernet Franc is most suited to our rich friable clay subsoils. An affinity it shares with the French vineyard soils of Saint Emillion, Chinon and Saumur Champigny. Often blended to our Estate Merlot to shore up its structure, the 2024 Cabernet Franc displays a defined sumptuous character in its own right.
FOOD PAIRNING
Slow cooked shoulder of lamb in a Moroccan herbs and spice marinade, accompanied with couscous and toasted pistachios, Greek yogurt and a citrusy leafy salad.
VINTAGE
After three successive cooler and wetter La Niña years (2021-2023), we experienced drier warmer growing conditions in 2024, growing season conducive to a high-quality outcome given our elevated cooler situation. A pre-flowering frost reduced net yield potential by 5% across blocks A, B and C. Ideal flowering conditions thereafter resulted in a good crop which produced grapes of clean and generous variety expression.
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Delivery & Shipping Details
Mount Avoca uses Australia Post to ensure a reliable and efficient delivery service to every location across Australia. If you are not at home to accept your delivery, they may leave your wine in a safe place or leave a card for collection from your nearest post office. The more detail you provide in 'delivery instructions' the more likely a seamless delivery.
Please contact us if you have any delivery concerns, or if you need to make alternative arrangements.
Cellar door pick up
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FREE storage
If you need to cellar your wine but lack the space, Mount Avoca has recently launched a free storage service in our temperature controlled cellar.
Pricing & Delivery Costs
Pick, pack and freight costs have risen dramatically over the last few years and we work hard to keep the costs reasonable and these costs are partially subsidised by us. Order over $350 in any one order to enjoy FREE freight or once you reach that amount in any 12 month period all future orders are deliverd freight free.
Delivery Times
Please allow 3–5 working days for delivery to capital cities and 1–2 weeks for regional areas and interstate, though we've noticed that delivery times have taken longer since Covid 19 came and went. Customer service is important to us; if we foresee a problem with your delivery we will contact you to discuss it. The above times are guidelines only and may be faster or slower depending on your location.
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Requirements
- Please include clear delivery instructions and a telephone number on all orders.
- Wine damaged in transit will be returned to Mount Avoca (which can take 4 to 6 weeks) and we will contact you to make alternative arrangements. Sometimes we are unaware of this, so please get in touch if your wine hasn't arrived after a week or two.
- Undeliverable wine will be returned to Mount Avoca and we will contact you to make alternative arrangements. Undeliverable wine will incur an administration fee of $30 for re-shipping.
- As we have no control over shipping Mount Avoca takes no responsibility for the delivery times or loss of orders. However, your satisfaction is paramount so we will always work hard to ensure you wine is delivered promptly.
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