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Fuddling Cup

2017 Cabernet Sauvignon

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$25.00

fuddling cup Cabernet 2017 wine bottle

Available on back-order

$25.00

Fuddling Cup

2017 Cabernet Sauvignon

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Fuddling Cup Cabernet Sauvignon

Elegant | Lighter | Smooth 

The 2017 Fuddling Cup Cabernet Sauvignon is a delightful introduction to red wine for those new to Cabernet. From the renowned Wilyabrup sub-region of Margaret River, this wine offers a lighter style for a Cabernet while still showcasing the region’s exceptional quality. It’s a perfect balance of fruit and structure, with soft tannins and elegant depth.

While this Cabernet is not as bold as some of its Margaret River counterparts, it excels in its elegance and finesse, reflecting the slightly cooler vintage of 2017. The wine showcases a nuanced flavour profile, with tobacco, blackberries, cedar, and aniseed notes, making it a truly enjoyable, well-balanced wine.

Why You Will Love It:

  • Elegant Cabernet Style: A lighter, more approachable style for Cabernet drinkers, with soft tannins and rich fruit character.
  • Subtle Oak Influence: 12 months in French oak adds depth and complexity, enhancing the wine’s smoothness.
  • Food Pairing: Perfect with grilled red meats, hearty stews, or aged cheeses. Also pairs wonderfully with game meats like venison or lamb.

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Tasting Notes:

  • Colour: Deep vibrant crimson.
  • Aromas: Lifted cassis, mulberry, and dark chocolate with hints of toasted French oak, offering a refined and elegant nose.
  • Flavours: Rich red berry and forest fruit flavours that develop into more complex cigar-box and cedary notes as the wine ages. A smooth, persistent finish.
  • Palate: Medium-bodied, with chalky tannins and a well-balanced structure. The wine is youthful but will continue to soften and mature over time.

Winemaking Details:

  • Oak Maturation: Aged in French oak for 12 months, contributing subtle oak nuances and enhancing complexity.
  • Region: Wilyabrup sub-region, Margaret River, WA.
  • Vintage: 2017 – A cooler vintage, offering a more elegant, refined style.
  • Alcohol: 13.4%
  • pH: 3.47
  • Residual Sugar: 0.29 g/L (Dry)

Review:

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit“Beautifully fruited and delightfully expressed, the wine shows cassis, sweet plum, violet, thyme, and toasted nut characters on the nose. It’s brilliantly focused and linear on the palate with excellent weight and fruit intensity together with fine texture and chalky tannins, finishing persistent and sturdy.”
Rating: 93/100


Best Serving Temp:

Serve at 14-16°C to allow the fruit and oak nuances to shine through. Due to its lighter body it can be chilled for slightly longer compared with fuller body Cabernet.


Additional Information:

  • Grape Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Region: Wilyabrup sub-region, Margaret River, WA
  • Alcohol: 13.4% by Vol
  • Closure: Screw Cap
  • Vintage: 2017
  • Volume: 750ml

Learn About Fuddling Cup Winery

Fuddling Cup wines are located in the Margaret River Wine Region, well known for their Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Although Fuddling Cup Cabernet Sauvignon began in 2000 as grafted rootlings in the tuart sandy loam of the Geographe region, today it is the gravelly loam over clay sub-soils of the Wilyabrup region of Margaret River which provides premium fruit as the perfect foundation for our superb Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes deliver a Cabernet Sauvignon that exhibits deep crimson hues, power and balance in the primary fruit, knitted seamlessly to the rich overlay of toasty oak and silken tannins.

In 2009 we introduced our ‘sister white’ Semillon Sauvignon Blanc, a classic Margaret River blend. Subtle complexity has been added by fermenting a little of the Sauvignon Blanc component in French oak hogsheads.

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Our promise is to deliver consistent wines that are a delicious and fruit-driven expression of our selected grape varieties, the Margaret River region, finest French Oak and best winemaking practices.

If there is a Fuddling Cup wine you love which we don’t stock we can order it in for you. Email us at info@partnersinwine.com.au

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