2018 Pinot Gris

BRONZE - ORANGE WINE SHOW 2018.

On the palate fresh pear & lifted floral notes

Evokes Italian town squares, people watching

Wine Making

Hand harvested fruit was de-stemmed and pressed to stainless steel.  After clarification it was inoculated with a cultured aromatic yeast.  The ferment was long and cool.  Post fermentation a small amount of light lees stirring occurred.  The wine was then stabilised, fined and filtered prior to bottling.

12.0% alc/vol, 7.14 Standard Drinks

2018 Riesling

GOLD - ORANGE WINE SHOW 2018.

SILVER - NATIONAL WINE SHOW OF AUSTRALIA 2018.

On the palate lime & musk, delicious mineral notes

Evokes pretty fishing villages, fairy-tale castles

Wine Making

Hand harvested grapes were destemmed and allowed some time for skin contact prior to pressing.  Pressed to stainless steel tanks the clarified juice was inoculated with a cultured aromatic yeast. The ferment was long and cool.  The wine was then stabilised, fined and filtered prior to bottling. 

Cellar 3-5 years.

12.0% alc/vol, 7.14 Standard Drinks

2018 Fumé Blanc

On the palate lifted passionfruit & subtle lychee notes with a dry & savoury finish

Evokes

Cobbled lanes, slow moving rivers

Wine Making 

Harvested at dawn and lightly pressed to extract free run juice. Barrel fermented in three year old French oak and partially tank fermented.  Left on yeast lees for 8 months with regular battonage providing a more complex savoury finish. 

Cellar 3-5 years. 

12.0% alc/vol, 7.14 Standard Drinks

Nashdale Lane 2017 Chardonnay

A crisp, delicate and crowd pleasing Chardonnay, pale straw colour with a nose of lime, melon and white peach with a lightly toasty end.

Evokes

Crisp white linen, long lunch into dinner.

Wine Making

Picked into 10kg baskets and gently whole-bunch pressed. Settled warm and racked with solids to barrel (25% new) for fermentation by wild yeasts. Stirred fortnightly for 11 months. Blended in tank and lightly fined before bottling. 

12.4% alc/vol, 7.3 standard drinks.

Cellar 3-5 years.

Nashdale Lane 2018 Pinot Noir

Strawberry notes, dark cherry tannins

Evokes

Relaxed & refined, all seasons.

Wine Making

Crushed to barrel and fermented in oak with gentle hand plunging.  A small proportion of whole berries were kept in the fermentation, adding bright fruit characters to the wine.  Post ferment the wine was pressed and returned to oak where it has matured for 10 months.

Clones : Abel, 777, MV6.

13.5% all/vol, 8.0 standard drinks.

Cellar 5 - 7 years.

Nashdale Lane 2017 Shiraz

Delicious spice, red berries & white pepper

Evokes

Chesterfield sofas, wood fires, relaxing as the world passes you by.

Wine Making

Cold soaked and using 15 % whole bunch, the juice was gently extracted using a sieve and light punchdowns then pumped over and left for 18 days on skins. It then settled for two days before being lightly racked to French Oak (25% new) for malolactic fermentation and maturation on lees for 14 months before bottling.

15% alc/vol, 8.8 standard drinks.

Cellar 5-8 years.