Tasting Notes
colour
Vibrant golden straw.
aroma
The wine displays savoury fennel and bright green apples with a spicy hit of ginger on the nose.
palate
Loaded with apricots and pithy mandarin with a restrained, linear acidity offering a rich yet refreshing mouthfeel.
cellaring
Best enjoyed over the next three to five years.
Technical
vintage
The 2021 vintage was moderate, mild and a wonderful year for Viognier. These great conditions resulted in beautifully ripe, varietally pure wines that are brimming with perfect, delicate, natural acidity.
winemaking
Individual parcels of fruit were hand-picked in the cool of the night and were pressed directly to the tank. Winemaker Emma Gillespie describes looking for “versatility with this wine, allowing it to be enjoyed whatever the occasion, achieved with combining fruit from different regions, as well as how the wine is made in the winery.” She aimed to enhance the beautiful Viognier characteristics with wine being left on lees for three months to create a deliciously crunchy texture.
regions
Perth Hills
Great Southern
variety
ViognierÂ
analysis
- Alcohol: 14.0%
- pH: 3.60
- TA: 4.65 g/L
Food Pairings
The highly acclaimed Millbrook restaurant's divine rabbit and fennel risotto.
Reviews
Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion 2023
Fennel flower, green apples, apricots, a touch of hessian, a flick of brine and ginger. The palate is more structural, more phenolic and more restrained than expected for the variety, but this is no bad thing. It might allow the drinker to have more than one glass, which is often the pitfall of viognier: it's bloody delicious, but it's too rich for its own good. The food match on the back of the bottle is rabbit and fennel risotto, and if you've been to the Millbrook restaurant, you'll be salivating at that.
93
Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion 2023
Fennel flower, green apples, apricots, a touch of hessian, a flick of brine and ginger. The palate is more structural, more phenolic and more restrained than expected for the variety, but this is no bad thing. It might allow the drinker to have more than one glass, which is often the pitfall of viognier: it's bloody delicious, but it's too rich for its own good. The food match on the back of the bottle is rabbit and fennel risotto, and if you've been to the Millbrook restaurant, you'll be salivating at that.
93