Eden Valley 11.5% Screwcap $20
This is made by a tiny producer in the Barossa. Stylish bottle but you’ll have to believe me as I have no bottle image and am shit with a camera.
I took this to my neighbours to see what they thought of it, as I considered it rather spesh. They liked it a lot. I’ll be picking up two more bottles of it at The Purple Palate in Brisbane for them in fact. So it ain’t just me who thought it was tasty.
Straw yellow (Gawd, what a boring description of a wine’s colour!), the nose possesses an array of tropical fruits with citrus and a hint of wet pebbles from a no doubt pretty creek. The entry is bright with pineapple, paw paw before custard apple and brown pear. It moves into lemon and citrus before ending on a lingering semi-sweet note. One of my neighbours got bubblegum and I could see where he was coming from.
Oh, and what is Kerner you may ask? The back of the bottle kindly informs me that this grape variety is a hybrid of Riesling and the late ripening black grape Trollinger. And a lovely hybrid it is. Good on Kabminye for introducing me to it.
I thought I detected some residual sugar sweetness, but the bottle says it is bone dry. Anyway the sweetness, perhaps of the fruit variety, worked very well in balance to the acidity.
A lovely & interesting wine all up.
Winery Website- http://kabminye.com/