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2009 Sami

Cabernet Sauvignon

At the age of 6 weeks our daughter Samantha ("Sami") was introduced to winemaking when Brenda and I dipped her feet into a bucket of fermenting Cabernet Sauvignon to make footprints on a sheet of paper for her grandparents in the US. We dip our feet into a ferment each year to record the Vintage on a sheet of white paper. But in those vintages when we experience a special Cabernet vintage we release a small quantity of a single varietal "Sami Cabernet".

2009 was a wonderful vintage for Lyndoch Cabernet Sauvignon. The colours were wonderful deep purple red and the fruit aromas released during ferment perfumed the air. It was a terrific vintage overall and we found there to be Cabernet Sauvignon with tremendous flavour, so as a result we decided that we would release our third Sami Cabernet. Thanks to the "78 Block" of Cabernet Sauvignon" on the St Jakobi vineyard we've chosen 8 barrels to put together a 270 dozen blend of something quite special.

The 2009 Sami Cabernet is another ripe full flavoured wine from us here on the hill. A mouth-filling and generously flavoured wine aged in new and one year old French hogsheads for 20 months. We've taken care in having the oak characters compliment and marry into the wine's sweet fruit rather than dominate it. We trust you'll enjoy it!