Stanners Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2023

'The grapes for our 2023 Cabernet Franc are from The Devil’s Wishbone vineyard here in Prince Edward County. The 2023 growing season was relatively warm and, after hand harvesting, the grapes were destemmed to whole berries with no crushing, then cold soaked and fermented as whole berries for a total time of about 26 days to help extract fruit flavours while not extracting too much tannin. The wine was then aged in older French oak barrels for 17 months and was not fined or filtered. The resulting wine is a beautiful Cabernet Franc that starts with soft appealing flavours which gradually become deeper before giving way to a long-lasting very strong finish.

This is a medium bodied Cabernet Franc having bright raspberry flavours, minerality, soft tannins and pleasing acidity. Drink now through 2035.'