Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Sauvignon

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Wine Description

'Son of' the Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon. It carries the structure, power and tannins of classic Cabernet in an earlier drinking, more forward style from fruit sourced from each of the Vasse Felix vineyards.

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Acclaim
“Glass-staining ruby. Spice-tinged aromas of cherry, cassis and fresh flowers and a touch of licorice. Juicy and seamless in texture, offering lively dark berry, bitter cherry and rose pastille flavors that show good clarity and clean thrust. Fine-grained tannins frame the persistent finish, which echoes the floral and spice notes.”
— Vinous, Jul 2021
“Filius is the entry-level Cabernet from Vasse Felix, the founding wine estate in Margaret River, Australia. The wine is well structured with firm tannins and great purity of fruit, unmasked by excessive oak.”
— The Wall Street Journal, Jan 2021
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Vineyard & Production Info
Vineyard name
selected sites throughout Margaret River
Soil composition
deep gravel loam soil over clay
Training method
VSP, BAL
Exposure:
Various
Year vineyard planted:
1998
Harvest time:
March-April 2015
First vintage of this wine:
2014
Average Vine Age:
20
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Winemaking & Aging
Time on its skins:
13 days
Varietal composition:
85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Malbec, 4 % Petit Verdot
Fermentation container:
Stainless steel tanks (Rotary and Static)
Malolactic fermentation:
Full
Type of aging container:
Barriques
Size of aging container:
225L
Type of oak:
French
Length of aging before bottling:
12 months
Age of Aging Container:
10% new, 90% 1-5 year old
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Analytical Data
No relevant data were found.
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Wine Production

A remarkably ripe and soft wine in such a cool vintage. The individual batches were destemmed and fermented as whole berries using only wild yeast residing on the fruit. Cabernet parcels underwent a suitable duration of maceration to extract a fine backbone of structural tannins and blackcurrant laden fruit. Malbec and Petit Verdot were pressed off skins earlier to maintain a soft and luscious mouth feel. The resulting wines were matured in fine French oak for 12 months prior to blending. Limited racking was used to help preserve the delicate wild characters captured in this low intervention approach.

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About the Vineyard

2017 was a cooler and later vintage than the previous 10 years; a year of elegant, perhaps slightly lighter bodied wines, though ripe in flavour, vibrant and very perfumed. Higher than average yields in combination with a cooler season contributed to delayed ripening of the fruit and good acid retention. Some timely warmth and sunshine occurred throughout January, although February temperatures remained moderate with some rainfall. With the cooler weather, canopy management and fruit thinning was imperative to mitigate disease pressures and allow for even, persistent ripening. There was a warm start to March to finish the white harvest, followed by the driest April since 1982, finishing the reds beautifully.