Grounded Cru McLaren Vale Langhorne Creek Cabernet Shiraz Malbec 2017
About the wine
Velvety, dark and delightful Cabernet Shiraz Malbec
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Fruit from 75-year-old Cab Sav vines is doing the happy dance with Shiraz and Malbec, combining the intensity of McLaren Vale with the opulence of Langhorne Creek.
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Get ready for a velvety punch of savoury blackberry up front with plum, blueberry and a pop of violet that leaves you wanting more.
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This is your one and only chance to try a premium wine we wouldn’t have got hold of under normal circumstances. Drink now or cellar for up to 10 years, but don’t hang about!
Best before
In suitable cellaring conditions our CSM will reward medium term cellaring for up to 10 years - drink now to 2030.
Serving advice
Open and let breathe for 30 minutes - ideally decant and let the wine relax....
Food match
The sweet and savoury flavours of this blend are delightfully suited to slow-cooked osso bucco with gremolata over polenta.
Contains sulphites
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Geoff Thompson
The first winemaker in his family, Geoff got to grips with grapes in 2002 and left a promising career in photographic science to do something he was passionate about. Hard work and enviable talent saw him work his way up the wine-stained ladder to Senior Winemaker at the Tahbilk Group in Victoria, in charge of more than a million cases a year!
Building a reputation as a master blender, Geoff won a ton of gold medals and trophies for his wines - and developed an itch to branch out on his own, back in his McLaren Vale homeland. Angels helped him scratch it in 2013 when a phone call in a car park kicked off his dream to create wines under his own label for them!
With his winemaking wizardry and access to some of the best grapes in the country, Geoff has been wowing Angels with his sensational South Australian wines ever since. He’s caught the eye of the critics too. In 2022, his winery was awarded 4.5 stars in the iconic Halliday wine companion.
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