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lance vineyard old vine cabernet sauvignon 2024

$90.00

From the original 1976 plantains of SA125 and cropped at 4.1 t/Ha. Hand picked on the 18th of March with 100% whole berries sorted to fermenter. After 3 weeks fermenting on skins it was pressed to a mixture of 225 Lt barriques where it completed malo. Over the next 11 months it was racked twice before blending and bottling in late February 2025. 142 dozen bottles made.

From the original 1976 plantains of SA125 and cropped at 4.1 t/Ha. Hand picked on the 18th of March with 100% whole berries sorted to fermenter. After 3 weeks fermenting on skins it was pressed to a mixture of 225 Lt barriques where it completed malo. Over the next 11 months it was racked twice before blending and bottling in late February 2025. 142 dozen bottles made.

The Wine Advocate

RP 94

Reviewed by:

Erin Larkin

Drink Date:

2025 - 2039

The 2024 Lance Old Vine Cabernet Sauvignon is leafy and perfumed on the nose. The fruit comes from the Lance vineyard in St. Andrews, planted to clone SA125. It is one of the oldest surviving vineyards in the Yarra, planted in 1976. There is a distinct petrichor note in here, one we don't see too often in Australian Cabernet, and it plays so neatly into the hands of the floral top notes and red/purple fruit spectrum. This is an incredibly elegant Cabernet. It's on the greener side of ripe, but I really appreciate the behavior of the tannins—in that they are not sappy or tacky, rather they are ductile and pliable within the fruit. This is a lovely wine, with lingering length and attractive sapidity. I find leafy/green-spectrum Cabernet like this often makes for graceful and fresh older wines. 12% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

Published: Sep 19, 2025