Tasting Notes - The Growers Verdelho 2004

This wine just didn't stack up for me, yellow with a lime green hue, a smokey, hay and wood chip aroma led onto a bitter palate, light in body with racy acidity, the new french oak influence masked any fruit and left a slightly unpleasant aftertaste in the mouth. Perhaps this kind of wine just isn't my thing as it has won a number of medals at reputable wine shows but in my view any oak influence in a wine should be integrated and in balance with the fruit character and in this wine the oak was completely overpowering.