A bouquet of orange rind, grapefruit and attractive baking spice emerging with aeration. The palate bright with juicy fruit and superb acidity for balance; notes of candied peel, honeyed fruit and an earthy funk give way to a spicy finish.
Very impressed by the harmony of primary fruit and secondary characters; definitely a wine that keeps you coming back for more. The nose is initially savoury with hazelnuts, smoke and pine needles that open up to candied peel, baking spice and fruit mince. Higher sugar levels lend a mouth-filling richness, complemented by pithy citrus flavours and balanced by hints of spice and dried herbs. A long savoury finish.
"It has a terse, orange rind, California raisin and dried apricot-scented bouquet with attractive resinous aromas emerging with aeration. The palate is well-balanced with superb acidity, crisp, honeyed fruit and a delicious spicy finish that is focused and tense. This is one of the best in their range."
Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate
Faded tropicals, sweet old persimmon with its citric edge, rancio and complex wood-oxidative characters. Slowly lengthening sweetness is guided by sweet-fresh acidity. The palate is gently plush, full of persimmon’s perfumed sweetness, velvet-textured, golden and round with tart fruit skin and jagged citric acidity giving penetrating run.
Scott Wasley, The Spanish Acquisition
Really decadent, voluptuous nose, heaps of deep dried fruit concentration, golden treacly richness with a vegetal lining, marmalade and billy tea for complexity and relief from density. Typical Verdelho plush citric mouth-feel, and typical buzzing acid relief. Delicately round with toffee sweetness cut by zippy fruit-skin tartness and electro-tingle acidity.
Scott Wasley, The Spanish Acquisition
Bottled 2013
