He became the first Australian winemaker to sell over 500 Australian dollars for a single bottle. It was only a few years before he launched his first wine on the market and immediately achieved excellent marks. His quest for the perfect wine goes hand in hand with a high degree of persistence and patience. He is a very communicative person with excellent sales qualities and has a strong marketing talent. He is considered a creative lateral thinker and an advocate of uncompromising organic farming. In the early 2000s, he looked for a completely new field of work and emigrated with his family to Down Under. He is a graduate biologist, but made his money selling outdoor equipment in the United States. The now 65-year-old American came to Australia just over ten years ago. Together with the manual and oenological skills of the dedicated winegrowers, these conditions have made the area one of the best wine regions in the world. The nearby ocean ensures a relatively high level of humidity, which perfectly supports the growth of the new wine, especially in spring. The temperatures are balanced, there are neither extremely hot summers nor extreme cold in winter. It is similar to the climatic conditions in the French wine-growing region of Bordeaux. In addition to ideal soil conditions, the climate offers optimal conditions. In volume terms, the region only accounts for about three percent of Australian wine production, but almost 20 percent of Australian premium wines originate here. Around the likeable small town, an area of around 60 square kilometers is used for the cultivation of vines and around 140 wineries produce white and red wines of outstanding quality. Margaret River is a place in the extreme southwest of the Australian continent, in close proximity to the Indian Ocean. And even his first wines earned him wide recognition in the international wine scene. A little over a decade ago, he bought unprecedented land in Australia's premium Margaret River wine region. The winery is tiny, the man behind it - Will Berliner - is a biologist, but a rather inexperienced Nobody when it comes to wine. A silky yet firm palate follows that is vibrant and fresh with superb layers of blackcurrant and liquorice flavours that drive through to a long and fine finish with exceptional balance throughout.Cloudburst, Australian cult wines with international top marks.Įven for the up-and-coming wine country Australia, where everything is a little more dynamic than in the old world, the meteoric rise of this small winery is extremely unusual. Excellent fruit definition and focus are well matched to classy small French oak. The gently fragrant and refined 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon offers up a wonderful core of fruit aromas including red and black currants, and touches of gravel lifted by a leafy/herbal complexity. Smoked oak on the finish but it is barely discernable against the depth of fruit and minerality. Blue fruits dominate over the darker cassis, adding freshness and keeping the rich concentration at arms length until the layers build through the palate. Clarity and nuance, silky tannins, herb-strewn, full of life and character and nuance, a whole other level of Cabernet Sauvignon, reflecting this unusual site.
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