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With the passing of another vintage we welcome all

our Mailing List customers and supporters to our

2013 Newsletter.

The past year has been both busy and rewarding

highlighted by another strong vintage, celebrating 10

years of the Coonawarra Roadshows and coinciding

with this newsletter showcasing the release of our new

vintage wines.

A warm dry summer followed by cool weather throughout

the harvesting period resulted in a relatively compact

uncomplicated vintage. The wines are showing great

colour, good varietal definition and the tannin structure

to suggest they will accommodate high levels of oak. Both

Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz look extremely promising

and we look forward to their progress.

This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the

Coonawarra Roadshows around Australia’s capital cities.

With record numbers in attendance it was fantastic to

catch up with many of your familiar faces at these events.

Lynn, Glenda and our happy band of helpers at Cellar Door

have been kept busy with a steady stream of visitors, as

well as our ongoing events. After Dark continues to grow

with an amazing crowd and atmosphere enjoying live

music and Mrs Zema’s pizza. Coonawarra Unearthed

Exhibition as part of the Penola Coonawarra Arts festival

gives the opportunity for our budding local wine industry

artist’s to showcase their talents while Coonawarra Cellar

Dwellers highlights our cellared wines with the opportunity

to taste and purchase rare museum wines from our cellar.

On the family front Mum and Dad are both fit and well

with Demetrio recently spending some time back in Italy

catching up with family and friends. Matt and Teresa

are keeping busy while Demetrio Jnr is now focusing

diligently on his law career. Nick and Jackie are enjoying

life chasing three kids around pony paddocks, sports ovals

and school yards.

OCTOBER 2013 Newsletter

Hand Pruned, Estate Grown & Vintaged

Winery + Vineyard News 2

New Releases + Tasting Notes 2 – 3

Order Form 4

Welcome from Nick & Matt

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GRAPE VARIETY

100% Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.

COLOUR

Attractive dark purple.

AROMA

Complex dark fruits highlighted by hints

of black currant, mulberry and dark

chocolate supported by mint, cassis,

spice and smoky oak.

GRAPE VARIETY

100% Coonawarra Shiraz.

COLOUR

Deep purple colour with reddish hues.

AROMA

The nose shows a gentle hint of spice and

black pepper with underlying red ripe

berries and generous varietal characters

supported by sweet vanillin oak.

Zema Estate

2008 Family Selection Shiraz

Zema Estate

2008 Family Selection

Cabernet Sauvignon

PALATE

The flavour is a complex combination

of ripe varietal fruit, toasty oak and firm

tannins giving good palate depth and

length. This complexity is enhanced from

the wine spending 24 months in American

and Frech oak hogsheads.

94 points

James Halliday Wine Companion

PALATE

The palate is dominated by aconcentration of ripe black berry fruits

and has great depth and persistence.

These characters are underwritten by

complex toasty oak. It wil l take time to

develop and show its full potential.

95 points

James Hal liday Wine Companion

2

The joys of a wet winter are starting

to show with lush green grass,

healthy budburst and our vitalunderground water table continuing

to rise and more importantly

keeping the spring frost at bay.

Our commitment to restructure

and refresh some of our vineyards

has commenced in earnest with

some grafting of newer Cabernet

Sauvignon clones, changes to trellis

design as well as the ongoing vine

maintenance of all our vineyards.

We look forward to these

improvements keeping our vines

happy and healthy, ultimately lifting

our fruit quality even higher.

Vineyard News

(Nick)

Following another terrific vintage

we are busily filtering wines from

the 2013 vintage as they complete

their malo lactic fermentation and

progressively filling into oak.

We are about to commence the

significant but rewarding task of

blending and preparing for bottling

the wines from the outstanding

2012 vintage.

We look forward in due course to

the maturation and release of two

excellent but contrasting vintages.

Winery News

(Greg Clayfield - Winemaker)

95 points

94 points



GRAPE VARIETY

100% Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.

COLOUR

Attractive dark medium red colour with

a hint of purple.

AROMA The nose displays violets with

ripe varietal mulberry, blackcurrent, dark

cassis and cedary oak characters.

GRAPE VARIETY

100% Coonawarra Shiraz.

COLOUR

Attractive dark medium red colour with

hints of purple.

AROMA

The aroma of the wine displays spice and

dark berries with a subtle touch of ground

pepper supported by nutty oak.

PALATE

The palate displays soft ripe berry and

subtle fruit tannins. It is complex andshows a balanced oak fruit combination

from its 14 months in French and

American oak. It also shows a great

palate length.

92 points


GRAPE VARIETY

Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), Merlot (25%),

Cabernet Franc (5%) and Malbec (5%)

COLOUR

Good Dark medium colour with a hint

of purple.

AROMA

The wine has an attractive ripe red berry

and mint aroma with traces of underlying

toasty oak.

Zema Estate

2009 Cluny

Zema Estate

2010 Cabernet Sauvignon

Zema Estate

2009 Shiraz

PALATE

The palate has bold dark cherry and

red berry flavours supported by

generous but approachable tannins.

The oak flavours are well integrated

from 12 months in French and American

hogsheads. The wine has a medium-

bodied structure contributing to an

overall attractive appeal.

89 points


PALATE The flavours are lively and

complex with vibrant dark red berry notes

supported by stylish toasty oak tannins

from its 14 months in new, one and two

year old French hogsheads.

94 points

James Halliday Wine Companion

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