Eden Valley, SA 14.5% Screwcap $20- Tasted 22/8/09
I love Yalumba. How can I count the ways I love Yalumba? Broad range of varieties, price, blends, endeavours etc. But, let’s face the facts straight up. I like Viognier and I think Yalumba can safely be considered the most important winery when it comes to that grape’s profile in Australia.
I went out searching for the 2008 of this, but due to limited time, had to settle for the 2007. Which is fine. I’ll get to the 2008 another day (I’ve heard it’s really good), and I wanted to check in what the 2007 might be doing. Well, to be fair, this bottle was probably more to my tastes if I could’ve consumed it earlier. I still had fun though.
Some reductive like funk here on the nose. Screwcap variation, not winemaker fault I’d say. It freed up. The tell-tale honey, apricots and ginger were there but muted and not in the sense of restrained. Could the funk be related to the wild ferment I asked? Maybe, but I hadn’t picked it up in the last bottle. And I don’t think this bottle was representative, so take the TN with two and half grains of salt please.
There were peaches in sugar syrup and sugar cane by itself. The spice was nice, but the acidity was lacking for me. It was very honeyed on the finish, and one could take ample pleasure from it. So I did. I’m not going to relate it to the physique of a lady, sometimes those things irk me. It was just a touch syrupy.
So for this bottle…..
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