Description
Stoney Vineyard is the “second” wine of the legendary Domaine A estate, which now belongs to art collector extraordinaire David Walsh, owner of Moorilla Estate and its extraordinary MONA gallery.
I may be biased because I worked here as a cellar hand during vintage 2006 and fell completely in love with the area and its wines but, for my money, Domaine A in the Coal River Valley is the best Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in Australia. It also makes the Cabernet that is most Bordeaux-like in Australia, and yet quite different too because the purity of the light and lack of summer rain in this part of Tassie (Hobart, remember, is the second driest state capital in Australia!) results in a fruit intensity that most vineyards in Bordeaux could seriously only dream of! This is a bold, spicy, exuberant, and luscious Cabernet that could happily stand as a high octane definition of the variety.
13.9% ABV.