2014 Highbow Hill Vineyard Yarra Valley Marsanne - Limit 12 bottles per customer
  • 2014
  • Yarra Valley

Highbow Hill Vineyard Marsanne

$70
Minus Plus
  • Category White
  • Varietal Marsanne
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Textured & savoury
  • Food Pairing Tuna sashimi, dim sum, curry
Description

This charming full-flavoured French Rhone-style Marsanne has unique floral aromas, it is lightly acidic and has fantastic texture.

Museum Release: The 2014 vintage produced wines of excellent structure that will cellar well.

94 POINTS - THE REAL REVIEW

'Full, bright yellow hue with a sweet honey and almond meal bouquet, solids fermented? The wine is rich and deep, complex and flavoursome, with sweet fruit richness and almost opulent palate flavour. Multi-layered. Gorgeous wine. Barrel ferment, concentration, layering and drive. A stunning wine.' Huon Hooke, The Real Review

93 POINTS - HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

'Barrel-fermented in used oak. An immediately impressive and imposing wine, high on perfume and bold with flavour. No room for ambivalence. Honeysuckle, pear, nectarine and leatherwood honey. Dares you to take it on.' Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion

Limit 12 bottles per customer

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  • Category White
  • Varietal Marsanne
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Textured & savoury
  • Food Pairing Tuna sashimi, dim sum, curry

TASTING NOTE

It has a very complex nose with aromas of dried pear, field honey and wild flower with a hint of potpourri. The palate is full bodied with rich spicy pear flavours and excellent texture.

SERVING TEMPERATURE | 11˚C - 13˚C
CELLAR POTENTIAL | Up to 10 - 15 years

REGION & SEASON

REGION
Highbow Hill Vineyard is 40 hectares of vines planted on rolling hills just north of Yarra Glen township in the Yarra Valley, one of Australia’s oldest and most revered wine regions. Highbow Hill soils are sandy loam over clay and gravel over Yarra Valley mudstone. The small Marsanne block, planted in 1998, faces south-west and slopes down to a dam at the centre of the property.

Handpicked Wines purchased Highbow Hill in 2013 and has invested heavily in the property, removing unsuitable varietals and planting new ones, erecting new fencing and extensively upgrading viticultural practices to realise the best potential of this exceptional site.

SEASON
Vintage 2014 was a challenging one in the Yarra Valley; cold and windy weather in spring caused widespread poor fruit set. However, late setting and ripening varieties such as Marsanne fared better than early varietals.

WINEMAKING

This Marsanne was picked relatively late, in mid-March, to allow the fruit to achieve full flavour. The fruit was whole bunch pressed and the juice was 100% barrel fermented in old oak to minimise oak aromatics while building texture and flavour. The wine was aged on lees for 10 months to further enhance texture and palate weight.

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