Greetings all, I think this should be relatively easy?
What, exactly, am I?
I am the first of my line, with the vast majority of me coming from a year described as good, although there were severe spring frosts in my region. My variety from this region is often described as cherrys, black currants, plums, prunes. I am also unique in the way I am barrelled. To assist, there are other wines from my region with names relevant to the region. Vines were first planted in this region over 120 years ago.
good luck
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The wine region of my first release receives around 25 inches of rain per year on average.
While most traditional varieties are grown here (Cabernet, Chardonnay, Shiraz, Riesling, Merlot), this region is renowned for one variety in particular, and the one I was produced from.
This is turning into a marathon, further clues clearly needed:
The soils in my region are immediately associated with my region more than any other in the country.
There is one variety synonymous with my region, I am produced from this variety.
Yalumba Octavius 1988 which was 100% Cabernet, mainly Coonawarra.
Not many people know that ...
“There are no standards of taste in wine. Each mans own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard". Mark Twain.
Jay60A wrote:Yalumba Octavius 1988 which was 100% Cabernet, mainly Coonawarra. Not many people know that ...
From info received the 1988 Ocatvius Cabernet was the first of the line but also the last, in a way, as no Octavius was made in 1989, and then became Octavius Shiraz in 1990, which is really the true first of the line
It is indeed the 1988 Yalumba Octavius, the first of the line, produced from 88% Coonawarra Cabernet. It spent 3 years in American oak octaves (90 litre casks) crafted at Yalumba’s cooperage.
