Nose
The nose is loaded with tropical
and passion fruits, which follow through onto the palate.
Palate
Delicious fruit
sweetness balanced by focused acidity and freshness makes this a very moreish
wine.
The
grapes for this unwooded style are picked slightly riper than most in
order to eliminate green characters and maximize the flavours of the tropical
fruit spectrum and to give the wine greater palate weight and length.
Growing Conditions
The 2017
growing season at Ashbrook was typified by warm sunny days and
cool nights.
A hail
event
in early Spring
reduced the volume of the early
varietals like Chardonnay
but
intensified characteristics.
Once again disease
pressure was minimal
due to Ashbrook’s predominantly lyre trellis system. A
bumper and lengthy Marri blossom meant Silver-
eye bird damage was
neg
ligible
for the earlier varietals however all nets were unrolled for the later
varietals as it unfortunately didn’t carry through. All said and done the white
varieties were harvested at optimum flavour ripeness. Yields were
back to our
traditional volumes
but
most importantly
the quality was impeccable.
The
2017
wines will have lower alcohol levels due to the lack of any heat waves before or
during
vintage
so the result is wines with an elegance and fullness, magnificent.
Harvest
Hand picked.
Bottling
18th
May
2017.
Food Pairing
A delicious wine to drink with or without food.
