Woodlands Malbec 'Reserve de la Cave' 2023

Woodlands issues the Reserve de la Cave label to an occasionally spectacular, rather scarce trio of (typically) single-barrel selections of estate-grown Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc and Malbec, all sourced from the vineyard planted between 1975 and 1977 on the south-facing slope of the Woodlands Vineyard in Wilyabrup, Margaret River. Produced since 2002, each wine is made simply: hand-picked, destemmed and hand-sorted into a small open fermenter, then transferred to new French oak for 15 months. At their best, the Reserve de la Cave Malbec and Cabernet Franc surpass all of their Australian counterparts.