A bottle of 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon wine from the Fermoy Collection. The label is black with gold and white text, featuring the name of the wine and the variety.

2020 Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon

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The Fermoy Collection represents classic expressions focused on approachability and varietal character.

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94 Points

3 Silver Medals

Reviews

94 points, 2024 Halliday Wine Companion - Jane Faulkner
"Expect lots of flavour from licorice, cedar, menthol, and brambleberries to cassis. There’s some density as much as intensity with lightly drying tannins and cedary oak adding to them, too. Thankfully there’s an attractive sweet spot midway, the fruit tempers that and it keeps unfurling the longer it’s in the glass – no surprise there, but it’s lovely to taste the changes. It’s wrangling its way out of youth and will be an upstanding fine mature wine one day. Drink 2024-2035.”

94 points, WA Wine Review - Ray Jordan
"This short, sharp vintage of the COVID year produced wines of tremendous concentration and power, yet with elegance and style. Blackcurrant, cedary oak, and dark chocolate swirl through a complex aromatic opening, leading to a velvety, finely crafted, structural palate. A wine with everything needed for cellaring over the next 10 years.”

90 points, The Real Review - Huon Hooke, 4 Oct 2023.
“Good depth of bright red-purple colour; aromas of ripe berries and cedar, good cabernet identity, the palate smooth and brightly berry fruited, with abundant fine tannins that persist through the long finish. A clean, bright, straight up-and-down cabernet that drinks well now and would cellar for several years. Drink 2023-2030.”

Awards

Silver Medal
2023 Sydney Royal Wine Show

Silver Medal
2023 Perth Royal Wine Show

Silver Medal
2023 Margaret River Wine Show

Colour Rich plum red with black tints.

Nose Aromas of blackcurrant, mint & bramble, with complexing notes of bay leaf, dark chocolate and cedary spice.

Palate Medium to full-bodied, this wine shows an abundance of bright fruit sweetness on the mid-palate, with classical cassis, raspberry and fresh mint notes to the fore. Savoury notes of fresh cooking herbs combine with hints of oak spice and bitter cocoa to add depth and complexity. A refreshing acid line provides poise and length, while an array of fine, earthen tannin provides structure and form.

Tasting Note

Colour Rich plum red with black tints.

Nose Aromas of blackcurrant, mint & bramble, with complexing notes of bay leaf, dark chocolate and cedary spice.

Winemaker Comments

Fruit sourced from various blocks – so a combination of hand and machine picked fruit was destemmed to a combination of open and static fermenters. Generally, ferments were cold soaked, with a controlled ferment allowing for considered and gentle maceration on skins. Wines spent somewhere between 2-4 weeks on skins depending on the parcel and fermenter, with MLF complete before pressing off skins to tank for a quick settle before racking to oak. Wines then spent the next 18 months in oak with no racking or movement – just a monthly topping. Cabernet blends were assembled in December 2020 according to barrel selection, prior to a light egg fining, long-term settle in tank and filtration before bottling in June 2021.

Winemaker Jeremy Hodgson

Technical Details

Region Wilyabrup, Margaret River, Western Australia
Varieties Cabernet Sauvignon (100%)
Alcohol 14%
PH 3.59
Acidity 6.22 g/L
Residual Sugar <1.0 g/L

Vintage Description

2020 - A classic Margaret River vintage with a warm and dry ripening period moderated by afternoon sea-breezes and cool nights.

Pair & Share

Cellaring Tannins are plentiful, providing a structural framework to the wine and ensuring good cellaring potential of 8-12 years, however they are sufficiently matured to allow for immediate enjoyment.

Serving Temperature Room temperature 15-18°C

Serving Suggestion Roasted leg of lamb with minted peas and potato dauphinoise.

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Liquor License: 6180040097. Class of Licence: Producer’s Licence. Name of Licensee: Fermoy Holdings. Address of Licensed Premises: 838 Metricup Road, Wilyabrup, Western Australia, 6280. Telephone of Licensed Premises: 08 9778 9015. Warning: Under the Liquor Control Act 1988, it is an offence: to sell or supply liquor to a person under the age of 18 years on licensed or regulated premises; or for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase, or attempt to purchase, liquor on licensed or regulated premises.