Jauma Birdsey Seaview Cab Franc 2020, natural red wine bottle at Primal Wine
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Jauma Birdsey Seaview Cab Franc 2020

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Tasting notes

The 2020 had no hen-and-chicken fruit set issues, producing a richer, more complete expression of this 30-year-old Seaview block than most vintages. Three weeks of skin contact gives it real structure — dark fruit, briary spice, and a floral edge — without losing the freshness that defines Erskine's wines.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
BlackberryVioletEarthBlack Pepper
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Medium Body
Grapes:Cabernet Franc
Farming:Organic
Vintage:2020
Alcohol:13%
Country:Australia
Region:McLaren Vale
Appellation:McLaren Vale GI
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Producer profile

Jauma

Jauma was founded in 2010 by James Erskine, a former sommelier who was named Australian Gourmet Traveller Sommelier of the Year in 2008 and held the Negociants Working with Wine Fellowship the same year. He also completed an honours degree in Agricultural Science through the University of Adelaide and UC Davis, specializing in soil chemistry, and served as chief judge of the Adelaide Review Hot 100 wine show from 2010 to 2013. Before launching Jauma, Erskine was a founding member of Natural Selection Theory, a collective of Australian natural winemakers.

Jauma's winery and farm are located on 40 acres of certified organic land in Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills, on unceded Peramangk Country. The McLaren Vale fruit comes from a network of long-term growers managed organically by viticulturist Fiona Wood, including Peter Birdsey's Seaview block, and is NASAA-certified organic. Erskine has worked with Fiona Wood since 2011. In 2018 he purchased the Lenswood property — already organically certified for over a decade — and has since planted Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, Savagnin, and Gewurztraminer on the farm.

Since 2015, Erskine has made all Jauma wines with zero additions: no sulfur, no cultured yeast, no added acid, no fining agents, and no filtration. All fruit is hand-harvested. Fermentations use only ambient wild yeast. All wines are sealed under crown cap, a practice Erskine adopted across the full range from 2016. The Birdsey Seaview Cabernet Franc is fermented on skins for three weeks, then pressed to old French oak for ten months before bottling.

Wine region

McLaren Vale, Australia

McLaren Vale sits roughly 45 minutes south of Adelaide, bordered by the Gulf St Vincent to the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east and south. The GI covers 433 square kilometers with around 7,400 hectares under vine. The climate is Mediterranean: warm, dry summers with low humidity, and most rainfall arriving in winter and spring. Daytime growing-season temperatures typically run between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius, moderated by afternoon sea breezes off the Gulf and cool air descending from the Ranges. That combination of warmth and low disease pressure has made McLaren Vale home to the highest concentration of certified organic vineyards in Australia.

The region has over 40 distinct soil types, ranging from red-brown sandy loams and grey-brown loamy sands to terra rossa over limestone and dark cracking clays. The Seaview subdistrict, on the western ridge overlooking the coast, sits on sandier profiles with red sand over clay subsoils. McLaren Vale remains phylloxera-free. Its primary red varieties are Shiraz, Grenache, and Cabernet Sauvignon, though Cabernet Franc has found a strong foothold with producers like Jauma who source from older blocks on the ridge.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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