There was a time when I thought this wine was arguably Australia's best gris / grigio effort, driven largely off the back of Neil Prentice's ability to craft an outrageously over-the-top style that crammed an incrediable amount of ripe fruit (and plenty of alcohol) into a bottle. Whilst that was true of the 2004 and 2005, the 2006 stepped back a gear and became a better balanced and elegant wine in the process.
The 2007, at least in this sitting, is tighter and leaner again, relatively speaking (ie more Italian or grigio in style) and in doing so has perhaps lost some (but not much) the immediate appeal of the super-ripe structure of previous years. Classic pale gold in colour with obvious rose-petal hues. Ripe nose, tangy, minerals, talcum powder. Palate was seemingly lean when the wine was chilled but progressively opened up as the temperature rose. Ripe, powerful drying musk fruits with some raspy acid to finish, but all a bit too one-dimensional as the fruit is quite straight forward and doesn't offer a lot of complexity.
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