Philip Rich Halliday Wine
2022 Hannah cabernet franc merlot
Aged for 11 months in just one new French barrique, and therefore there are only 288 bottles in existence! Lifted and perfumed, you will find aromas of kirsch, peony, pencil box shavings from the new oak and some freshly ground coffee beans. Suave and persistent on the palate with super fine, ever so gently chewy tannins. Elegance personified. If you're lucky enough to get your hands on a few bottles, your patience in opening them 5, 10 or 15 years from now will be well rewarded.
2022 Hannah cabernet franc merlot
Aged for 11 months in just one new French barrique, and therefore there are only 288 bottles in existence! Lifted and perfumed, you will find aromas of kirsch, peony, pencil box shavings from the new oak and some freshly ground coffee beans. Suave and persistent on the palate with super fine, ever so gently chewy tannins. Elegance personified. If you're lucky enough to get your hands on a few bottles, your patience in opening them 5, 10 or 15 years from now will be well rewarded.
Philip Rich Halliday Wine
2021 Hannah cabernet franc merlot
Just so perfumed and elegant with its array of mainly red fruits together with wild rose, cedar, rosemary and sage. Even though it’s not a big wine, the fruit has already begun to swallow up the new oak. Medium bodied, this is both silky textured and structured with superfine and persistent tannins that simply melt in the mouth. A totally gorgeous wine from beginning to end and one that will provide enormous enjoyment over the next 10 to 15 years. 97
2021 Hannah cabernet franc merlot
Just so perfumed and elegant with its array of mainly red fruits together with wild rose, cedar, rosemary and sage. Even though it’s not a big wine, the fruit has already begun to swallow up the new oak. Medium bodied, this is both silky textured and structured with superfine and persistent tannins that simply melt in the mouth. A totally gorgeous wine from beginning to end and one that will provide enormous enjoyment over the next 10 to 15 years. 97
Hannah is rarely reviewed since we don't have enough bottles to send to the media!
But occasionally they will try it at an event
Gary Walsh - The Winefront
2019 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Cabernet Franc/Merlot. A single (new) barrel produced. 290 bottles made. Pretty happy to have made a 0.3% dent in the total production this afternoon.
Extraordinary wine here. Blackberry, raspberry, potpourri and violet perfume, a liquorice pastille richness, and pencilly spicy cedar oak, and in 2019, it seems the oak as been lapped up by the intensity of the fruit. Medium-bodied, rich and full of dark berries, and some red ones peeping through, dark tobacco, toasty spicy oak in support, layers of firm graphite tannin, and a very long savoury, yet perfumed finish. Magnificent.
2019 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Cabernet Franc/Merlot. A single (new) barrel produced. 290 bottles made. Pretty happy to have made a 0.3% dent in the total production this afternoon.
Extraordinary wine here. Blackberry, raspberry, potpourri and violet perfume, a liquorice pastille richness, and pencilly spicy cedar oak, and in 2019, it seems the oak as been lapped up by the intensity of the fruit. Medium-bodied, rich and full of dark berries, and some red ones peeping through, dark tobacco, toasty spicy oak in support, layers of firm graphite tannin, and a very long savoury, yet perfumed finish. Magnificent.
Gary Walsh - The Winefront
2018 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Only 288 bottles made, of this blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot in more or less equal parts. Likely sold out, though it’s likely some of us will have a few bottles tucked away. Nice of them to send in, anyway. I see my Maryann walking away. It’s more than a feeling. And why don’t people wear electric blue satin outfits these days? Seems such a shame.
There’s quite a lot of toast, nutmeg and baking spice oak here, but given time, it starts to fold back into the wine. Raspberry, redcurrant, sweet slightly grassy and minty perfume, along with dried roses, tobacco and black olive. Medium-bodied, quiet succulence, savoury Merlot with Franc finesse, dense slightly grainy tannin, and a long cool finish of excellent length. All it needs is time.
2018 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Only 288 bottles made, of this blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot in more or less equal parts. Likely sold out, though it’s likely some of us will have a few bottles tucked away. Nice of them to send in, anyway. I see my Maryann walking away. It’s more than a feeling. And why don’t people wear electric blue satin outfits these days? Seems such a shame.
There’s quite a lot of toast, nutmeg and baking spice oak here, but given time, it starts to fold back into the wine. Raspberry, redcurrant, sweet slightly grassy and minty perfume, along with dried roses, tobacco and black olive. Medium-bodied, quiet succulence, savoury Merlot with Franc finesse, dense slightly grainy tannin, and a long cool finish of excellent length. All it needs is time.
Gary Walsh - The Winefront
2017 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Hannah is a palindrome, and also, Hannah Hunt one of my more favourite songs by Vampire Weekend.
This is a 50/50 blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc. One barrel made. 100% new oak, as a result. Sold out at the winery, but available at retail I believe.Plum and pencil shavings, flowers and raspberries, baking spices and sweet herbs. It’s a beautiful thing, so supple and graceful, a smooth delivery of perfectly ripe fruit, melting high pixel tannin, cocoa and sweet herbal perfume, clear acidity, impeccable length. So you say you don’t like Merlot? Poor little you!
2017 Wantirna Estate Hannah cabernet franc / merlot
Hannah is a palindrome, and also, Hannah Hunt one of my more favourite songs by Vampire Weekend.
This is a 50/50 blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc. One barrel made. 100% new oak, as a result. Sold out at the winery, but available at retail I believe.Plum and pencil shavings, flowers and raspberries, baking spices and sweet herbs. It’s a beautiful thing, so supple and graceful, a smooth delivery of perfectly ripe fruit, melting high pixel tannin, cocoa and sweet herbal perfume, clear acidity, impeccable length. So you say you don’t like Merlot? Poor little you!
2012 Hannah cabernet franc merlot
Bright crimson-purple; a supremely elegant and finely tuned blend; light -bodied it may be, but it has surprising length and intensity to its ever-so-pretty display of small red fruits. Blends such as this are rare outside Margaret River, and even there they are far from common
Bright crimson-purple; a supremely elegant and finely tuned blend; light -bodied it may be, but it has surprising length and intensity to its ever-so-pretty display of small red fruits. Blends such as this are rare outside Margaret River, and even there they are far from common