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THE BONELINE CABERNET FRANC 2021

A Hidden Treasure from North Canterbury

Product Code: 5466
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: Red
Variety: Cabernet Franc
Producer: The Boneline

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 14.0%
Grape: 100% Cabernet Franc
Natural: Certified Organic

Original price was: $89.99.Current price is: $85.99.

A Hidden Treasure from North Canterbury

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Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"The Boneline 2021 vintage gave a small elegant crop, presenting an opportunity to experiment in crafting single varietals from fruit traditionally bound for our Iridium red. Wild boysenberries, violets, chambord, licorice allsorts, tilled earth, roasted sage, vibrant, alive, delicious, terrestrial."

Rated Outstanding & 96/100 Cameron Douglas MS, July 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"Complex, ripe and intense with a core of ripe and pure scents, dark berries, olives, stone and dried herb qualities. There’s a persistent and deep seated core of gravel and dark clay soil tones adding complexity and breadth. Complex and youthful. Delicious, taut and textured on the palate with tannins and acidity delivering texture and length. There’s also a saline quality set against a nut, baking spice and dried herb baseline. Dark berry fruit flavours and toasty barrel spices deliver contrast and weight as well as a varietal signature. A lovely wine that will continue to develop and age well. Best drinking from 2026 through 2036."

Reviews for the 2020 vintage below…

94/100 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (2020 Vintage)
"The 2020 Cabernet Franc opens with an incredibly fruit-sweet, luscious nose—it's all mulberry and cassis, graphite, tobacco, raspberry pip, rosehip tea and black pepper. In the mouth, the wine is silky and ripe, with supple, ductile tannins and a seamless flow of fruit and flavour across the tongue. It's ripe but elegant, a supremely wonderful wine and highly recommended. Pleasurable mouthfeel 101. Chalky, it has a Nebbiolo-esque asphalt leaning—a most attractive feature."

We provide a door to door delivery service nationwide. Delivery charges are calculated on a 12 bottle case or part there of.

Delivery charges are calculated during the checkout process based off your address post code. Please ensure you choose the correct post code. We will advise you if you have chosen the incorrect post code.

You may also choose to 'pick up' your order from our wine shop at 188 Durham Street South, Christchurch.

For further details on prices and delivery options please go to the Delivery & Returns section of our site.

If for any reason you are not entirely happy with your order or you suspect that it may be affected by a quality issue, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will remedy the problem straight away. Contact us on (03) 3655134.

Note, for orders of 1 - 2 bottles we charge an additional $5 for packaging. To ensure the safety of the bottles we use specially designed posting boxes.

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The Boneline is a family business who started planting in 1989, continuing to craft wine exclusively from this original vineyard, in their own winery. They were one of the early Waipara vineyard pioneers, recognising the areas potential as a premium wine region.

Boneline's location was selected on the basis of meeting rigorous selection criteria: frost-free micro climate, north-facing and north of the Ashley River, with a limestone and gravel base. Grape varieties have been matched to the sites across four unique levels of terraces to maximise grape potential.

Boneline's Cellar Door offers seated tastings, a sharing-style snacks menu, a library wine selection (previous vintages), and a wine store. They also host weddings and events.

On weekends a Vineyard walkway is open for cellar door guests to walk the property and learn about the various blocks (there are 22 signs along the way).