2024 Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Shiraz Cabernet Cabernet Franc
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The Crayères Vineyard Shiraz Cabernet Cabernet Franc 2024 is our seventh vintage of this classic Australian blend following the long-established tradition of fine Australian Shiraz and Cabernet blends. 2024 was a mild and dry vintage, creating the perfect framework for the production of fine Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc wines in Wrattonbully.
The wine displays ripe fruit flavours, with violet aromas, mulberry and blackberry fruit, and earthy black olive characters.
This vineyard has been baptised the Crayères Vineyard, after the chalk cellars that are found throughout Xavier’s region of birth in Champagne, France. Similar natural structures are found underneath this very special vineyard, and they are now the subject of a research project led by a team from the University of Adelaide as they are full of undisturbed ancient fossilised remains.
The Crayères vineyard is located next to Tapanappa’s Whalebone Vineyard, at the top of a north-south limestone ridge in Wrattonbully, one of Australia’s most exciting regions. The Terra Rossa top-soil is characteristic of the area. This part of the vineyard was planted on rootstocks in 2008, using cuttings from the neighbouring Whalebone Vineyard and French clones, and at a relatively high density for the area (4,444 vines per hectare, similar to the density of vineyards in Saint Emilion). The fruiting wire is only 50cm above ground, which is why the local vignerons call the vines the “low vines”.
Read more about the Crayères Vineyard.
- “Finely crafted, controlled, and focused to a sustained finish” 95 Points – Ken Gargett | Wine Pilot
- “You can trust in Xavier and the team at Terre à Terre” 94 Points – Shanteh Wale | Halliday Wine Companion
- “It’s a wine that offers its own sense of completeness and identity” 94 Points – Tony Love | Wine Pilot
- “A wine for every stage of the dinner” 9.4/10- Simon Hughes | Max Crus
- “There’s a vast spread of wonderful dusty tannins wrapping a core of velvet, dark fruit” 93 Points – Regan Drew | Vino Notebook
- “A fine mesh of unobtrusive tannin, and satisfying length” 92+ Points – Campbell Mattison | Wine Front
- “Smart shape and length” 91 Points – Aaron Brasher | The Real Review
- “Not a hair is out of place” Marc Malouf | Wine Worth Writing About
