2018 Vanguardist Blanc

BOWE-LEES-LOVEYS VINEYARD
WOODSIDE, ADELAIDE HILLS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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TASTING NOTES
“Lime, cut fennel, mild herbal fragrance. It’s tight, with slightly nutty sake-like flavour, fine powdery texture, intense yet quiet, with a very long limey finish. I was reviewing wine solo, but nipped off to pinch some of the kids’ Chinese dumplings, and coming back now, this wine is really singing.”
94 POINTS - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front  

WINEMAKING
About one-third of the co-harvested Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc was destemmed and fermented on skins for about twelve weeks, in oeuf. The balance was foot crushed and “whole bunch pressed” after about 5 hours of skin contact.

This was transferred to old oak barriques and went through a natural fermentation. The wine underwent elevage on full lees in oak for nearly twelve months prior to racking by gravity and bottling unfined-unfiltered.

130 dozen produced
FSO2: at bottling 15ppm
TSO2: 130ppm
pH: 3.27
TA: 6.1g/L
Alcohol: 11.3%