Carillion Arbitrage Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Shiraz 2019

In finance, ‘arbitrage’ is defined as a riskless abnormal return, or in other words, a situation where you can’t lose. What better name to give to this Super Tuscan style red! 

Only produced in years of exceptional fruit quality, we blend a combination of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Shiraz to produce a wine of great depth and solidarity, while retaining balance across the palate and a lingering finish. 

Situated in one of the most famous zones in Australia for producing powerful wines, the Limestone Coast of South Australia, our Stonefields Vineyard is highly valued for its excellent soils and cool climate. It is by far our biggest vineyard and offers soils made up of classic terra rossa clay loams over limestone almost identical to its better known neighbouring area of Coonawarra. 

Other parts of the vineyard are made up of minor duplex brown loams oversubsoils of red/orange clay and ironstone gravel and the combination of these soils make it a great place for our major varieties of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz in reds and Pinot Grigio in white. Only the best parcels from this vineyard are selected to go into the Stonefields brand wines.

Despite some slight brushes with frost, 2019 turned out to be an excellent vintage. Cool early season conditions led to low yields in Cabernet Sauvignon but all other varieties yielded well. Hot weather in January and February had little impact on the vineyard and by the time ripening was well underway in March, conditions had cooled considerably. This led to one of the longest ripening seasons for many years and led to fruit of great flavour and balance.

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