Amber in colour. Botrytised raisins. The nose is candied and cooked peach flesh with a hint of honey. The palate has acid-edged peach concentration, incredibly heightened, luscious and concentrated. Peach-saturated sweetness meets an incredible acidity of 13g/L. This is an enormously concentrated and challenging TBA for the next 10+ years. The sweetness is not hidden and neither is the acidity. 8% alcohol. Needs time to find itself and then decades to mature - it will live beyond me.
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Wild yeast fermented in open stone fermenters before pressing to French oak barriques (30% new) for 16 months. Aromas of red currants, violets and cedar are supported by black olive, tobacco and gravel dust. A velvety, refined palate with cassis, cocoa and graphite is framed by firm yet fine tannins and superb length.
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Hand-picked, whole bunch pressed, straight to oak (30% new) with full solids and wild yeast fermentation. No MLF (same as the other 2 single vineyard 2022 Chardonnays). An aromatic Chardonnay with white nectarine, nougat and almond pastry notes underpinned by a subtle flinty complexity. The palate is intense, with fine natural acidity and a distinct savouriness from extended time on lees.
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2022 Weingut Robert Weil Kiedricher Turmberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
5/20/2024 - mmilgate Likes this wine:
Amber in colour.
Botrytised raisins.
The nose is candied and cooked peach flesh with a hint of honey.
The palate has acid-edged peach concentration, incredibly heightened, luscious and concentrated. Peach-saturated sweetness meets an incredible acidity of 13g/L.
This is an enormously concentrated and challenging TBA for the next 10+ years.
The sweetness is not hidden and neither is the acidity.
8% alcohol.
Needs time to find itself and then decades to mature - it will live beyond me.
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2018 McHenry Hohnen Cabernet Sauvignon Hazel's Vineyard
4/3/2024 - mmilgate Likes this wine:
Wild yeast fermented in open stone fermenters before pressing to French oak barriques (30% new) for 16 months.
Aromas of red currants, violets and cedar are supported by black olive, tobacco and gravel dust.
A velvety, refined palate with cassis, cocoa and graphite is framed by firm yet fine tannins and superb length.
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2022 McHenry Hohnen Chardonnay Burnside
4/2/2024 - mmilgate Likes this wine:
Hand-picked, whole bunch pressed, straight to oak (30% new) with full solids and wild yeast fermentation.
No MLF (same as the other 2 single vineyard 2022 Chardonnays).
An aromatic Chardonnay with white nectarine, nougat and almond pastry notes underpinned by a subtle flinty complexity.
The palate is intense, with fine natural acidity and a distinct savouriness from extended time on lees.
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