Tasting Note

                 Sydney Time

           Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008

Happs Three Hills 1999 Cabernet Franc February 06

A touch of VA; nothing sweet about this wine the bouquet showed dry straw/caramel blackcurrant, chocolate, cedar and pepper. A well-balanced and youthful wine with fresh acid, deeply seated fruit which is still partially buried very fine tannins. Blackberry, herbs, smoky oak, and eucalyptus flavours fill the mouth and finish long. As the wine opened leathery flavours also emerged. A very interesting wine, it will probably benefit from another few years in the cellar. Rated as Highly Recommended.