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Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
Winestate Marlborough Tasting March/April 2020: 4 Stars
Winestate Best of Best Value Buys: 4 Stars
Winestate Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2021: 4 Stars
Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
Cameron Douglas MS, World of Wine: 88 Points
The grapes for this wine were sourced entirely from our family-owned Honey Block vineyard in Lower Dashwood, where the elevated and windy location challenges the vines. A sweet fruit explosion opens with honeysuckle, candied citrus peel and lemon notes on the palate and then dries beautifully. Grown with love, made with care.
Perfect accompaniment to the spice and sweetness of Asian cuisine or served cold as an aperitif.
Colour: Pale gold. Aroma: Sweet aromas of honeysuckle, candied peel and citrus assail the senses. Palate: A sweet fruit explosion opens with honeysuckle, candied citrus peel and lemon notes on the palate and then dries beautifully. Cellar: More than 10 years.
The grapes for this wine were sourced entirely from our family-owned vineyard in Lower Dashwood, where the elevated and windy location challenges the vines. The soil here is predominately composed of a layer of top soil over a tight clay that the vines can’t penetrate. Dependent on vigour, the vines were cane pruned to either one or two canes and trained to vertical shoot position. The warm spring of 2017 brought ideal early growing conditions and a tip-top flowering season. The bunches were reduced to one bunch per cane before flowering, producing yields of 5 tonnes per hectare when harvested in April 2018.
Once at the winery, the grapes were crushed, destemmed and pressed immediately. The juice was then floated, warmed and inoculated with an aromatic yeast. A cool fermentation followed and when the wine was deemed in balance (in residual sugar, alcohol and acidity) the ferment was stopped. The wine was then stabilised, filtered and bottled in late October 2018.
Alcohol 13.0% pH 3.27 TA 8.38 g/l
Residual sugar 43.8 g/l
Winemaker: Kim Crawford
Tasted: May 2019
Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
Winestate Marlborough Tasting March/April 2020: 4 Stars
Winestate Best of Best Value Buys: 4 Stars
Winestate Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2021: 4 Stars
Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
Cameron Douglas MS, World of Wine: 88 Points
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