Evans and Tate Redbrook Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River

Description

Evans and Tate Redbrook Cabernet Sauvignon is Evans and Tate’s flagship wine made from only the best parcels of fruit. Evans and Tate is one of the top wineries in the Margaret River wine-growing region of Western Australia. It is located quite centrally in Margaret River at the corner of Caves Road and Metricup Road, Wilyabrup and is one of the larger wineries in the region. Evans and Tate was established in 1971 when John Evans and John Tate went into partnership and bought the small Gnangara Winery in the Swan Valley, north of Perth. In 1974 they identified a piece of land on the northern banks of the Wilyabrup River in Margaret River with well-drained soils, Mediterranean climate and maritime influence. In 1975 they planted their first vines in what was to become the Redbrook Vineyard (named after Tate’s Dachshund). Through the years, the company has modernised, evolved and expanded and now concentrates solely on Western Australian wines. John Evans left the partnership in 1983 and John Tate and his wife Toni took over and ran the winery until he McWilliam family, one of Australia’s First Families of Wine, bought the winery in 2007. James Halliday awarded Evans and Tate five red stars in in his 2011 Australian Wine Companion. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. After pressing and fermentation each batch representing an individual vineyard bock was racked separately off lees into a combination of new French oak barriques (80 %) and one to two year old French oak barriques where they underwent a short malolactic fermentation. After time in barrel, the wine was carefully blended and filtered once before undergoing final maturation in bottle.