Wantirna Amelia Cabernet Merlot 2018 blanc de blancs followed by 24 months bottle

followed by 24 months bottle aging

verve and energetic drive compelling

spicy and chewy

loams and gravels

Wantirna Amelia Cabernet Merlot 2018 blanc de blancs followed by 24 months bottleThe 2018 season was one of the earliest. Flowering in the spring had been ahead of usual and this pattern continued, with Merlot coming into the winery in the first week of March. The fruit was perfect, ripe and with great tannins. As each year is a little different in terms of the way the varieties perform in the vineyard, the winery gets slightly varying amounts of each grape. The 2018 Amelia is about usual for the proportion of the past few years,