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Just a few kilometres north of Lowburn, near the windswept shores of frigid Lake Dunstan, atop the parched and laborious terroirs of Central Otago, a high country merino stud between the Amisfield and Parkburn streams was sown to vineyards two decades ago. Grazing country makes magnificent viticulture, the austere alluvial and glacial schist soils now yield the quality of Pinot Noir which has defined Central Otago as the world's most demonstrable marque in full bodied, intensely complex, yet beguilingly seamless Pinot Noir. The challenging terraces which spiral around the fractious knolls of Amisfield Vineyard, sire a sensational range of wines defined by.. Satiations from the nethermost regions»
Bringing you the fruit of old Barossa vineyards, which have been handed down from generation to generation, crafted in the traditional old world way, by a commune of family growers who have delivered the most memorable vintages since early settlement. The label says Soul Growers but the harvests were historically bottled by the nation's most illustrious brands. Today, these veteran families of Australian viticulture can bring their princely harvests to market under a moniker that defines a tradition of village winemaking and a culture of reverence for the land. Ancient rootstock Grenache and Mourvedre, bespoke clones of Cabernet and Shiraz, prodigal plots of.. Views of venerable old vines»
Jim Barry was a pioneer of the Australian wine industry, the first academically qualified winemaker to take up Clare Valley viticulture in 1949. He had an uncanny intuition for good land and established some of the most illustrious vineyards on the continent. Jim Barry is also a patriarch of the Coonawarra, in pursuit of the perfect terroir for Cabernet Sauvignon, he planted vines on the ancient Penola Cricket Oval, preserving the original pavilion for posterity. Jim Barry endures as one of the nation's most distinguished brands, renowned throughout the world of wine for decades of the most remarkable vintages, an evolving range of superior vineyard editions,.. Salient statements from superior sites»
Adam Marks is a chicken enthusiast. In his pursuit of the ultimate eating fowl, Marks traced a route throughout the barnyards, orchards and vineyards of La Belle France. He ultimately settled on the Harcourt Valley of greater Bendigo to establish his own agricultural concern in 2004. Succulent roasting chickens and ripe juicy apples soon gave way to a range of world class wines, which are defined by their regional eloquence, sublime excellence and bucolic grace. The Vineyard Bress is a place of pristine soils, cheerful livestock and breathtaking pastoral charm. The wines speak for themselves, crafted to the most painstaking, small batch vinification.. Halcyon harvests of harcourt valley»

Grosset Springvale Watervale Riesling 2008 CONFIRM 2008 VINTAGE

Grosset Springvale Watervale Riesling 2008 - Buy
Riesling Clare South Australia
Outstanding Langtons Classification. Few Australian wines can boast the lineage of Springvale. This is the 28th vintage in which Grosset has released a Watervale Riesling, Springvale is now entirely from the single estate vineyard. Vintage 2008 is shaping up to be the best since 2002. Fresher, more fragrant and more highly driven by intense lime juice flavour than it's Polish Hill sibling. There is also restraint here, vibrance and succulence with zesty, almost earthy and certainly minerally notes, as well as pure fruit before its lingering, dry finish.
Springvale Vineyard is a place of abundance and flavour. This should come as no surprise since Grosset's exhaustive research into viticultural potential and his meticulous care with the choice of earth itself was as geologically sophisticated and acute then as it is now. Dark grey slate and slaty siltstone of the Mintaro Shale, about 750 to 800 million years old, underlie the area. The rich red soil over limestone produces sturdy vines, big berries, chunky bunches and a lime green fruit. In some ways, these characteristics of soil and vines preview the nature of the wine that comes from this vineyard, dry with a mineral edge, savoury, yet with a noticeable fullness and richness and pronounced Riesling fruit flavour.
Pale gold colour. The first taste is like biting into a grape, Springvale is delicately fragrant with a touch of talc, intensely limey with some lemony notes and immaculate purity of fruit, juicy and succulent yet tightly structured, weighty, before a long, zesty dry finish. To many, it will be much more immediately appealing and enjoyed young for its refreshing, cleansing tanginess and mouth-watering varietal concentration.
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Grosset Wines is an independently owned winery set in the Clare Valley producing just six highly regarded premium wines each vintage

Established in 1981 by Jeffrey Grosset in the historic township of Auburn in the southern tip of the Clare Valley 100 kilometres north of Adelaide, the winery is stylish but functional and reflects the attention to detail that extends to the Grosset estate-owned Clare Valley vineyards and to the winemaking.

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The Grosset Polish Hill vineyard is situated in a U-shaped ridge formation running north from Mount Horrocks. The soil is shaley, not especially fertile, and slightly acid, and the topsoil crust is of clay and shale. The Polish Hill vineyard does not have Watervale's air of abundance. On the contrary, the vines are smaller, working harder to draw sustenance from the less generous soil, and berries are smaller and more concentrated than those of Watervale.

In comparison to Watervale Riesling, Polish Hill is more austere, leaner, reflecting the nature of the terrain that Jeffrey Grosset, with his usual attention to geological constraints and possibilities, chose as his spot in the Polish Hill River area. Conscious of the historical as well as the geological significance of the district, Jeffrey Grosset often refers to his Polish Hill vineyard as Pawelski, to recognise a former land owner and one of the area's pioneers.

The Grosset Polish Hill – from a lean, spare even unlikely-looking terrain – has the purity, restraint, and austerity of art, but also its beauty, its resonance, its hidden surprises. As Langton's Australian Wine Guide puts it, ‘This is the most successful Australian riesling. Grosset is a perfectionist and the wines have incredible perfume and purity, lime/floral fruit profile balanced by an indelible acidity that cuts across the palate. This wine does much to define the distinctive character of Clare Valley riesling.'

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Located in the north-eastern corner of the Clare Valley 's Watervale subregion and at its highest point, the Grosset Springvale vineyard has a thin crust of topsoil over a soft limestone base. Dark grey slate and slaty siltstone of the Mintaro Shale – about 750-800 million years old – underlie the area. The Springvale vineyard is a place of abundance and flavour. This should come as no surprise since Grosset's exhaustive research of viticultural potential and his meticulous care with the choice of the very earth itself was as geologically sophisticated and acute twenty-five years ago as it is now.

At the Grosset Springvale vineyard, rich red soil over limestone produces sturdy vines, big berries, chunky bunches and a lime green fruit. One hundred per cent hand-picked, the grapes are bigger than those on the Polish Hill vines and offer a generous, fruity bursting taste. In its full ripeness on the eve of picking, the vineyard presents a thick, undulating prospect of green – grapes and vines giving a sense of plenty and of flavours ready to burgeon.

In some ways, these characteristics of soil and vines preview the nature of the wine that comes from this vineyard, dry with a mineral edge, savoury, yet with a noticeable fullness and richness and pronounced riesling fruit flavour. The first taste is like biting into a grape.

Grosset's Gaia is one of the most astonishing vineyards you'll see. Planted at 570 metres, at the highest point of the Clare Valley , the vineyard is an elongated triangular wedge of emerald green that sits above the rolling golden cornfields of the Clare Valley.

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