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Wine Description
The Story
This wine expresses the distinct regional profile of Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon and the site characters it takes from the Vasse Felix vineyards, with a focus on Wilyabrup. It was the first red wine produced in Margaret River and has been made every year since 1972. Cabernet is a robust variety ideally suited to Margaret River's climate and deep, well drained soils.
Cabernet parcels grown in the coastal, northern reaches of Marga...
Vintage 1983
The 1983 Australian wine vintage was a challenging, erratic, and climatically dramatic harvest marked by severe environmental extremes—including catastrophic bushfires and widespread drought—that ultimately yielded low quantities of deeply concentrated, highly structured, and long-lived red wines across South Australia. Following a prolonged, scorching drought that parched the countryside throughout 1982 and early 1983, the growing season culm...
