Boat O'Craigo, Yarra Valley
The winery’s distinctive name echoes that given to a farm in the town of Craigo in Scotland. Where our ancestors settled alongside the docking point for the ferry that crossed the North Esk River. The Boat O’Craigo name and tradition have drifted across seas to settle and book-end Victoria’s burgeoning Yarra Valley with two magnificent vineyards, one in Healesville and the other in Kangaroo Ground. One red, the other white.
• Low sulphur
• Low intervention fining
• Organic practices
• Natural fermentation
Boat O’Craigo practices organic winemaking and production wherever possible: no pesticide use, use of organic ingredients and additives, hand picking fruit, and utilising nutritional and natural compost in the vineyard. As with the ferry’s docking-point, it is here at the gateways to the Yarra Valley that the physical journey of our travels ends, although the journey of the senses is only just beginning.
Winemaker: Kathy McBride
Viticulturalist: Peter Payten
Cabernet Sauvignon
Complex characters of Cassis fruit, black cherry and tobacco and coffee on the palate combine with long firm tannins to create a rich, ripe classic example of Yarra Valley Cabernet. All three of our Cabernet blocks were hand-picked and then fruit specifically selected for this wine. Predominantly mature vine fruit was fermented wild in open pots for 7-10 days, with a twice-daily pump-over to extract optimum flavour and tannin. Pressed when dry in to new (30%) and seasoned French oak for 18 months.
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