2015 Carrodus Viognier
Medal One
Medal Two
Signature apricot blossom, lifted white flowers of honeysuckle and a little musk stick aromas. Flavours of apricots deliver oodles of weight and flavour but there is also a green apple brightness bringing an acid line comes to drive the back palate and keep the weight in check. A chalky texture and some oak tannin from barrel maturation carrying the flavour to a long lingering finish.
Reviews
96 Points – James Halliday, Wine Companion
97 Points – Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine
Winemaking
Tiny yields, this fruit is hand harvested lovingly by only Yarra Yering staff, crushed for a little skin contact before basket pressing over many hours. Any juice not pressed from the skins is then frozen to be used in the Dry Red Wine No. 2 ferment weeks later. The Viognier juice is run off to old oak barrels without any clarification for primary fermentation followed by malolactic fermentation for 10 months maturation before bottling.
Only two barrels produced in 2015
Technical Data
Varietals: Viognier
Region: Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.
Vines: This Viognier is sourced from some of the oldest Viognier vines in the country. Three blocks across the vineyard with plantings: 1969 original vineyard, 1973 Underhill Vineyard and 1990 New Territories.
Cellaring: Drinking beautifully at present and will evolve for a further 5 years under suitable cellaring conditions.
Alcohol: 14%