Description
This wine is supple and ripe with intense pear, quince and mandarin flavours. The fruit and spice notes are underlined by a rich and creamy mouthfeel with a good acidity providing a mineral backbone and a long lingering aftertaste to this off-dry style wine.
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DESCRIPTION:
APPEARANCE – Crystal clear – very pale lemon
BOUQUET – Intense perfume of honeysuckle, quince, mandarin peel and melon.
PALATE – This wine is supple and ripe with intense pear, quince and mandarin flavours. The fruit and spice notes are underlined by a rich and creamy mouthfeel with a good acidity providing a mineral backbone and a long lingering aftertaste to this off-dry style wine.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS – Location – 45 degrees South
Low cropping estate grown grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in March from Aurum’s Te Wairere vineyard in the Lowburn area of Central Otago.
CLIMATE –
We experienced an unusually warm summer with hot dry days and harvested a whole month earlier.
SOILS – Fluvial, glacial silts and gravels.
VINE AGE – 18-year-old vines
TRELLIS STYLE – VSP Vertical Shoot Positioning
WINEMAKERS COMMENTS:
The grapes were whole bunch pressed to minimise extraction of skin phenolics and fermented at low temperature in stainless steel tanks with extensive lees stirring to increase the mouthfeel.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Residual sugar: 7 g/L
