THE SYDNEY RESERVE 2017

A legendary wine honouring wine industry legend and Leconfield founder, Sydney Hamilton.

This wine pays homage to Sydney’s dream… in 1974, at the age of 76 and a winemaking career spanning nearly 60 years, Sydney still yearned to make a classic Australian Cabernet Sauvignon. Selecting Coonawarra as the region to fulfil his ambitious dream, Sydney began to plant vines in the now famed Coonawarra terra-rossa over limestone soils.

A true Reserve Wine with the premium grapes selected from the vineyard at harvest. Fine medium to full bodied palate with silky tannins and great persistence of flavour, this wine has the elegance and structure expected of fine Cabernet Sauvignon. We think that with every release of Leconfield Sydney we realise Sydney’s dream.

BOUQUET

The Sydney Reserve 2017 has a beautifully complexed ripe cassis nose augmented with integrated French oak to give fine a fine cedar nuance.

PALATE

Fine medium to full bodied palate with silky tannins and great persistence of flavour, this wine has the elegance and structure expected of fine Cabernet Sauvignon.

CELLARING

The Sydney Reserve 2017 is matured for 2-3 years after bottling to provide a wine which is ready to be enjoyed now and for the next decade.

WINEMAKING

The vineyard chosen was thinned to position fruit along the trellis to avoid both excessive shading and over exposure to the sun.

Following harvest on 4th March 2016, the fruit was fermented in an oak vat will regular manual pump overs. Pressed with some residual sugar, the wine was run into new French oak to complete primary fermentation.

The Sydney Reserve 2017 received several rackings then completed maturation in three year old French oak hogsheads for seven months.

Following bottling the wine received a further two years bottle aging before being released in September 2021. Single Batch. Hand pruned. Hand crop thinned and shoot positioned.

OM PRODUCENTEN

Leconfield and Richard Hamilton Wines
www.leconfieldcoonawarra.com