Made for Tesco by Neqtar Wines. Harvested in the cool of the night once we had reached flavours in the vineyard of nectarine, dried apricot, honeysuckle and white peach. This was a batch treatment process whereby we treated batches of viognier differently. 3 types of yeast were used for three different batches, including a small portion of wild yeast in barrel. Some of the juice was tank fermented with immediate fining and filtering, other batches were lees stirred until we had reached the desired middle palate weight and creaminess. In searching for a name for this wine, the choice was simple. In all Phil Reedman's correspondence he would refer to the wine as 7A. The vineyard he was referring to was actually the Savonnay vineyard near Mildura. And so the name 7A stuck.
I would have guessed this as Semillon, blind. Fat, candle waxy smell. Very savoury in the mouth, almost salty, and with good length. Only the merest hint of apricot from the Viognier. I like this. 13.5%


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27/06/08

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