Tasting Notes
colour
Pale straw with green tinges.
aroma
Lifted and exotic with notes of pear and lemon rind blending amongst coriander seed and fennel spice notes. This wine is alluring from first glance and will continue to reveal itself in the glass.
palate
The palate is juicy and moreish with a saline backbone supporting endless citrus fruit characters. The wine holds mineral qualities with coastal influence providing rock salt flavours and a pith like flow.
cellaring
Drink now, will age gracefully for 2–3 years.
Technical
vintage
2024 was one of the earliest vintages ever seen in Margaret River. Consistently warm and dry conditions allowed for exceptional fruit ripeness and flavours with a very well-balanced natural acidity for such a hot year. Extensive marri blossom meant pest pressure in the vineyard was minimal. The quality of fruit is fantastic and 2024 has produced some very exciting wines with flavour definition and structure.
winemaking
The warmer 2024 vintage suited this wine, allowing it to express generous fruit flavours while clinging onto the variety's natural racy acidity.
The fruit was harvested at night on the 5th of February to retain freshness before gentle pressing to a stainless-steel vessel for cold settling.
A cool fermentation was engaged to build the aromatic profile. This was followed by a 3-month maturation on ferment lees to enhance complexity and texture before clarification and bottling.
region
Amadeus Vineyard, Margaret River
variety
Albariño
analysis
- Alcohol: 12.5%
- pH: 3.36
- TA: 8.25 g/L
Food Pairings
Chargrilled octopus with fresh lemon and spring veg from the garden.
Awards
Margaret River Wine Show 2024
Best Alternative White
WA Good Food Guide Wine Awards 2024
Number 24 in the Top 25 Wines of WA
Wine Show of Western Australia 2024
Reviews
WA Good Food Guide Wine Awards 2024
We don’t see a lot of great Albariño of distinct varietal character here in Australia, and this one stood out for all the right reasons, beckoning us with its summery air. Green apples and pears, loads of white spice and crunchy phenolics to back up the plush entry. Another impressive wine from the Deep Woods team in Margaret River.
Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot 2024
Albarino has never taken off here as once it might have appeared it would do, and good ones are rarer than honest politicians. From the Margaret River, this is surely one of the best released for some time. It spent three months on its lees before bottling.
Straw gold in colour, this is wonderfully aromatic with peaches, apricot skins, figs, sea breezes, florals and stonefruits. A touch of ginger and glacéd lemon, as well. This is ripe, full of flavour and with such a seductive texture. Excellent length here, completing a superb white. Now for four years. Love it.
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Barry Weinman, September 2024
The fruit for this wine comes from recent plantings on the Amadeus Vineyard in Wilyabrup. The aim of the winemaking was to preserve fruit and retain freshness. A goal that they have achieved very well. Aromas of nectarine and pear lead the nose, but it is the textural, slightly viscous palate where this really shines. Gentle phenolics, hints of lemon pith and lime-like acidity combine to make for an excellent wine to serve with salt and pepper squid.
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