Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

International Wine Challenge 2025 | GOLD 95 points

For information regarding previous vintages please contact the winery on info@foresterestate.com.au
Vintage
 2024
Grape Variety 97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot
Oak maturation 14 months – 28% new, 72% two and three year old French oak barriques
Alcohol 14.5% Alc/Vol
Release date July 2025
Colour
 Deep red with purple hue.
Aroma
 Lifted with fresh characters of cassis, mulberry, bay leaf and lavender along with gravel dust and balanced cedar oak.
Palate Long with a tight and focused drive, fine chalky tannins and balanced acidity. There’s cassis, mulberry, bay leaf and sage with a subtle lavender perfume and balanced cedar oak. A restrained wine from a ripe and powerful year.
Food matches Traditional roast lamb with rosemary.
Peak drinking
 Drinking well now but will develop further in the bottle through until 2034. The wine will benefit from decanting before drinking.
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Viticulture

Picked from a selection of super premium cabernet vineyards at our disposal including a portion of open lyre trellis. As always, meticulous management of bud numbers and shoot thinning ensure a balanced canopy to ripen the crop. The vines grow in the well regarded gravelly/granite soils of Northern Margaret River and are allowed to reach full ripeness before harvesting. The 2024 growing season was warm and dry which led to an early harvest. Our best Cabernet blocks were harvested between the 23rd of February and the 14th of March.

Winemaking

The fruit was harvested in the morning, delivered to the winery and was processed straight away on receival. Fermentation was controlled at 25-29 degrees Celsius in our small open fermenters with heading down boards. Extraction was achieved by daily draining of the wine away from the skins and returning back over the top, with fermentation and maceration times varying from 5 to 25 days. The wine was then pressed to a blend of new and older French oak barriques to complete malo – lactic fermentation.

Storage / Bottling

Maturation lasted 14 months before the wine was bottled in July 2025. Bottled under screw cap to ensure the wine retains its varietal and regional integrity for longer.

Awards & Accolades

2024 Cabernet Sauvignon

International Wine Challenge 2025 | GOLD 95 points
Ray Jordan WA Wine Guide 2026 | 95 points
Halliday Wine Companion  | 94 Points
Sydney Wine Show 2025 | Silver 91 Points – Second In Class
Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2025 | Silver – Top In Class
Decanter World Wine Awards 2025 | Bronze
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2025 | Bronze

 

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