Palate
This wine exhibits citrus blossom, honey, and lime zest aromas. The beginnings of some aged characters are also emerging with hints of marmalade on toast and complex fusel notes. The palate remains fresh and lively with citrus, green apple and pear flavours, slatey minerality, chalky texture, and a taught acid backbone ensuring a bewitching persistence of flavour.
Growing Conditions
A warm and dry spring followed by a summer punctuated with perfectly timed rain events, was otherwise low in humidity. The autumn harvest period was dry and protracted with vintage conditions best described as on the warm side of perfect. Our white wines show an abundant and bold array of varietal expressions which are layered and pure. 2011 has delivered Riesling with ripe fruit flavours and linear acidity.
Winemaking
The highest quality batches earmarked for our top Rieslings showed intense aromatics, fine elegant fruit and great length. These select batches were cool fermented in stainless steel tanks to maintain the delicate fruit flavours.
Extensive, some say excessive, blending trials were carried out to produce a wine that is very elegant but still very powerful. The fruit upon arrival at the winery was immediately processed to ensure the highest quality juice. Only free run juice, which is tighter and more finely structured as it has no phenolic character, is used for this wine.
Appearance
Pale straw in colour.
