Colour: 
Light straw with attractive green tints. 

Bouquet: 
Fresh fragrant floral fruit with a lemon-lime lift

Palate: 
Made in a dry style, this wine has attractive zesty fruit with excellent length and viscosity. The wine finishes with a clean, vibrant acidity 

Food Suggestions: 
Enjoy this wine as an aperitif, with canapés and with any meal where a cleansing acidity refreshes the palate. It is excellent with a broad range of Asian-influenced cuisines. 

Cellaring Potential: 
Perfect with its vibrant primary fruit flavours in its youth, but allow a couple of years to get an extra toasty dimension expected from a good Riesling with age.

Winemaking Notes:
Our 33 year old Riesling Vineyard is planted on a south-facing slope in McLaren Vale that creates a cooler microclimate particularly suited to Riesling. Every year, this vineyard provides grapes of wonderful concentration and style, with intense flavours and wonderful varietal definition. The grapes were harvested in the cool of the night on the 10th of February. Following gentle air-bag pressing without crushing, the juice was allowed to settle over several weeks. The juice was racked then cool fermented with a yeast strain specially selected to enhance the floral nature of the fruit. The wine has had minimal handling and was stabilized with a light fining in the same tank in which it was fermented. This is wine in its purest form – elegant and stylish – from the vine to the glass.

Background Information:
Willunga, in the southern reaches of McLaren Vale is tough country with a long and colourful pioneering history. The early settlers owed much to its slate mines, some of which still exist to this day. ‘Slate Quarry’ derives its name from the abundance of slate found in the hills surrounding the McLaren Vale region. The slate can be seen extensively in buildings and gives character to the region.

Oak:
Nil