Out Of The Bottle
With David Ellis 2008 Wolf Blass Gold Label Adelaide Hills ChardonnayAn
unseasonally cool February after moderate mid-summer conditions in the
Adelaide Hills in 2008 certainly gave makers there plenty to think
about, but there was worse to come in March when conditions swung from
cool to one of the longest heatwaves in South Australian history.
Matt
O’Leary at Wolf Blass, however, managed to get all the fruit for his
white wines off the vines before the heatwave hit, and because of those
earlier cool conditions this fruit was flavoured to the max, resulting
for him in a really outstanding 2008 Wolf Blass Gold Label Adelaide
Hills Chardonnay.
A very elegant wine rich with varietal
Chardonnay flavours, it has a nice creamy texture, and aromas of
grapefruit, white peach and subtle nutty oak.
Pay $25.99 and
match with a creamy seafood mornay or roast pork. And while enjoyable
now, it’ll develop nicely over the next three to five years for even
greater pleasure down the track. ONE FOR LUNCHNot many wine labels take their name from supporters of the Temperance Movement, but Wynns’ Alex 88 does just that.
A
Miss Nora Alexander lived on the land at Coonawarra that became the
Alex 88 block, and as a supporter of the Women’s Temperance Movement
dictated that after her death, the property not be sold for growing
grapes; her nephew, however, sold it to a neighbouring winery some
years later, and it was later bought by Wynns.
A 2006 Wynns’
Alex 88 Cabernet Sauvignon (the number 88 comes about because the
vineyard was planted in 1988) is a full bodied wine with beautifully
forward blackberry fruit flavours, integrated oak and lingering
tannins; a lovely red well worth the $38.99 price tag to share with
roast lamb and garlic mash.
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