$30, Screwcap, 14.5%
Wild yeast ferment in small french oak. Unusually long growing season made for a strong structure.
I'm not winning on the alternate white varietals front of late, with two dissapointments this week alone. This wine is perhaps more dissapointing than the Elgee Viognier from earlier in the week, as I'm sure I have enjoyed a vintage of this wine at one point or another.With a full golden straw colour, it certainly looks rich and full (quite a contrast to the subtle, honeysuckle style of Tahbilk). Smells it too, the nose full of maturing, honeyed peach and lemon toast with an old Grigio like dirty haybail character. Obvious oak on the textural, flabby palate. Inelegant, shapeless back palate. and intrusive alcohol.
Ultimately, this could be an oaky Sem or a Pinot Gris, for it's a rather nameless, nothing wine of limited appeal. 15.3
Ultimately, this could be an oaky Sem or a Pinot Gris, for it's a rather nameless, nothing wine of limited appeal. 15.3
2009/10 WCA Wine Journalism 'Young Gun; Wine Judge; Gourmet Traveller WINE and Breathe Hunter Valley magazine contributor; LattéLife columnist; National Liquor News Tasting Panellist, WBM Coolest Wine Tweeter of 2010 and Riesling lover who fell into the liquor industry chiefly to buy cheap beer.
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