Wines of the Week
Hungerford Hill Tumbarumba Chardonay-2010 & Riscato From Shaw Vineyard Estate, Murrumbateman
The family owned and boutique Hungerford Hill winery is situated in the Hunter Valley but it still sources its cool climate grapes from the Snowy Mountain foothills for their Tumbarumba Chardonnay Classic range.
The 2010 is their most recent release and is a vintage for wine lovers who enjoy their Chardonnays. This wine has everything going for it; grown in the high elevation cool Tumbarumba region and fruit that's crisp, resulting in a rewarding wine.
This wine has a pale strawish colour with a tinge of green and has cherry oak, nutty-bready elements, red ruby grapefruit and pleasant ripe stone fruit on the palate, all mouth filling and pleasantly rich. Add oak tannins and a tightly acid structure and you've found a wine to buy and drink now.
Interestingly the company has gone back to basics and has devised a label for this vintage inspired by the 1971 Hungerford Hill Chardonnay, its first.
For $30 you'll discover it goes down well with seafood, pork or poultry dishes that are complimented by butter based or cream sauces.
A Glass For Lunch:
About a 25 minute drive north of Canberra at Murrumbateman you'll come across the Shaw Vineyard Estate. There you'll find a wine labelled Riscato, an interesting wine with lower-alcohol content at 9%. It is in the mould of Moscato from Italy. It is sweet wine but not over the top.
It is mostly a Semillon/Riesling blend with a hint of Shiraz to give it a rose pink tint. A non-vintage wine it is refreshing to the palate.
Serve it well chilled and it well compliments a good fruit and cheese platter or any spicy main course dish.
Visitors make it one of the favourites at the Shaw Vineyard Estate cellar door. It comes it at $15 per bottle.
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