Cabernet Shiraz Merlot 2005

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Wine Colour

Deep purple with a crimson hue.

Wine Bouquet

The aroma is abundant with juicy plums, black currants and licorice with background notes of chocolate, vanilla and cedar.

Wine Palate

The palate has intense flavours of berry fruits, spice, licorice, dark chocolate and vanilla. Good oak integration, balanced acid and soft tannins create a well structured wine with a soft, velvety finish that is sure to please.

Suggested Food Matching

Try it with BBQ Satay Steak.

Critics Notes

“5 stars, a wonderfully deep, complex and savoury wine with a lovely lifted cedary/cigar box nose and excellent complexity of savoury characters blended with sweet varietal fruit and drying tannins”
Winestate Magazine (AUS) December 2007
“Great value. Black fruits, spice and sweet oak make an attractive aroma and the palate has a juicy, ripe flavour of good intensity.” 4 Stars
Sally Gudgeon / Ralph Kyte-Powell, Uncorked, Sunday Age (AUS) 18/11/2007

Cellaring Notes

The wine can be enjoyed now but will benefit from careful cellaring up to and possibly beyond 2012.


Winery	Wakefield Winery
Country	Australia
Varietal	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot
Vintage	2005
Alcohol	14.0 %
PH	3.61
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Awards

Range	Wine Name	Vintage	Show Name	Year	Class	Award
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	International Wine & Spirit Competition	2007		Trophy - Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	International Wine & Spirit Competition	2007		Gold
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Shanghai International Wine Challenge	2007		Gold
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	New Zealand International Wine Show	2007		Silver
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Liquorland Top 100 Wine Awards	2008		Bronze
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	New Zealand International Wine Show	2008		Bronze
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Clare Valley Regional Wine Show	2007	14	Bronze
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Japan Wine Challenge	2007		Bronze
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Liquorland Top 100 Wine Awards	2007		Bronze
Eighty Acres	Cabernet Shiraz Merlot	2005	Royal Adelaide Wine Show	2007	26	Bronze