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Winemakers Notes "2023 was a wet and cold vintage. The cooler season provided the perfect opportunity to make a sparkling Riesling in the Traditional Method/Sekt style. Grapes picked on 5th April. Partially whole bunch pressed, light pressing, all free run juice. Fermented in old French puncheons and kept on gross lees for 3 months. 13 months on lees in bottle adds subtle complexity, the dosage of 4 g/L balances perfectly with the higher acid from the cooler season. Savoury, brioche … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Werkstatt
Region: South Australia
Sub Region: Mt. Gambier
Upper Yarra Valley Chardonnay (I10V5) from the excellent Bulong Vineyard (Yarra Junction), a gentle south facing slope grown on grey clay loam soils. Harvested in late February, fruit was gently pressed to tank to settle. Following a light racking, juice is naturally fermented in neutral French barriques. Rested on fine lees for 9 months with bâtonnage. MLF in some barrels. No additions beyond sulfur.
"It's tight and crunchy, but it’s also saline and savoury, offers some ginger and spice, green … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Wheeler
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Yarra Valley
Made using fruit sourced from the highly esteemed Willowlake Vineyard in the cooler South-Eastern reaches of the Yarra Valley on red and grey volcanic soils.
The 2019 Pinot Noir was hand-picked in mid March. 30% whole bunch (kept as 100% whole bunch cab-mac for 2 weeks), with the balance destemmed to whole-berry. Naturally fermented with a total maceration time of approximately three weeks. Matured in French hogsheads for 9 months. Bottled in January 2020. Unfined and unfiltered. 194 dozen made.
Country: Australia
Producer: Wheeler
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Yarra Valley
Impenetrable black as night colour with a very deep dark purple black hue. Heady aromatics of ripe blackberries, liquorice and dark chocolate intermix with vanillin cedar, black plum and spice. Bold, richly textured flavours of succulent blackberries, liquorice and black plum flavours hit the palate with tremendous force completely saturating the mouth. Underpinning the fruit is spicy vanillin oak, light earth and spicy pepper. Velvet smooth tannins have a lurking sturdiness to them. Outstanding concentration and power with a long … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Whistling Eagle
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Heathcote
The fruit for the Springflat comes from four sites; 60% of which comes from our northern vineyards, 40% from the south at Mia Mia. Dark crimson in colour - if one wine represents a snapshot of the whole vintage, this is it. There are delightful red fruit aromatics of raspberry and strawberries, along with some briary cigar box and undergrowth characters. The palate has a nervous energy of natural acids, with opulent red fruits and forest floor flavours. The Springflat … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Wild Duck Creek
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Heathcote
Producer Notes - "Once hand harvested with careful sorting in the vineyard, the bunches were partially crushed by foot and very gently pressed, directly to barriques. Natural fermentation occurs in 33% new oak barriques (Francois Freres MOG, medium toast, Dargaud & Jaegle Vosges, medium toast) with 100% malolactic fermentation. Lees ageing in barrel for 12 months, followed by four months in stainless steel on fine lees, before racking (according to the new moon) and bottling, unfined and unfiltered, no stabilisation. … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Wilimee
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Macedon Ranges
Bringing your nose to the glass and your olfactory is treated to caramel and vanilla layered on herbal and floral notes. The mouthfeel starts oily but finishes dry. On the palate you are treated to sweet caramel, vanilla, dusted in floral notes... finishing notes of oak and a lingering spiciness.
50.05% alc./vol. (100.1 proof)
Producer: Willett Distillery
"This dry grown vineyard was planted in 1981 on old, red volcanic soils at 150m elevation. There are four separate parcels of Pinot Noir, two north facing blocks of MV6 and another of Abel, as well as a more sheltered south facing block of MV6. The wine smells of ripe dark fruits including blueberry, blackberry and blackcurrant as well poached autumnal fruits - quince, medlar and pear. The palate is rich and weighty with rose hip, mace and black pepper. … more
Country: Australia
Producer: William Downie
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Gippsland
Now here's a Pinot that fits the Bill! The Cathedral is as effusive and charming as the man who made it, and while his more serious wines need time in the cellar, this one is destined to be drunk young and often. Juicy, supple red fruits leap out of the glass, with a whiff of cinnamon spice to finish.
Country: Australia
Producer: William Downie
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Gippsland
"A blend of fruit from the Matthews vineyard in Berrys Creeks and Guendulain Farm in Yarragon. Matthews was planted to MV6 on red volcanic soil in 1998 and has always been dry grown. It is a cool, damp site and the vines grow dense, lush canopies. The vines at Guendulain were planted in Baw Baw Shire in 2008 at 10,000 vines per hectare, half MV6 and half Pommard clone. The wine smells of blood plum, blackberry and blackcurrant as well … more
Country: Australia
Producer: William Downie
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Mornington
"Fruit was sourced from the Mrs Nicks vineyard in Balnarring and Rivendel in Merricks North. Mrs Nicks was planted to MV6 in 1998 on a gently south facing hill of chocolate brown sandy loam. Rivendel, planted in the same year, is a mix of D5V12 and Pommard clones of pinot noir on grey sandy loam and is the same vineyard that our 2007 Mornington Peninsula wine came from. Aromas of raspberry, red currant and pomegranate as well as morello cherry, … more
Country: Australia
Producer: William Downie
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Mornington
Country: France
Producer: William Fevre
Region: Chablis
Country: France
Producer: William Fevre
Region: Chablis
Régisseur Didier Séguier describes 2019 in general as " ripe yet largely classic in style and their concentrations and acid backbones should permit them to age for a very long time."
Country: France
Producer: William Fevre
Region: Chablis
Country: France
Producer: William Fevre
Region: Chablis
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