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The Last Ditch Viognier is named after the McLaren Vale vineyard from which the fruit is sourced which lies at the bottom of a gully in a big ditch. This site was originally inhabited by a bland variety from which Sherry is made called Doradillo, but was re-planted with Viognier, which is anything but bland, in 1995.
The Characteristics: A brilliant green tinged gold appearance. The nose is generous and expressive with citrus such as grapefruit and lime evident alongside apricot stones, ginger, peach blossom and a subtle background of preserved lemons and honey.
The palate is tightly structured and youthful with apricot, peach blossom, lime and orange peel initially present. As the wine opens up a wonderful honey character shows itself with candied ginger nuances. Nutmeg and cinnamon linger with a long finish.
Although drinking well now, great structure and good natural acidity suggests this wine will age well over the next three to five years with the varietal apricot characters becoming more prominent.
The Vintage: 2008 was a fabulous vintage for white wines in McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills due to sufficient winter rains and cool conditions for most of the ripening period. The winter rain ensured the soil reached filled capacity and set the vines up perfectly. A normal spring and an unseasonably cool January and February meant the vines remained stress free and flavour ripeness was achieved at reasonably low sugar levels and high levels of natural acidity.The McLaren Vale fruit was picked during the cool February conditions. A run of hot days in early March helped ripen the cool climate vineyards of the Adelaide Hills.
The Winemaking: Full fermentation with near full solids in old oak was long and moderately cool to retain fruit characters. Only the free-run juice was used for the final wine without any malolactic fermentation. Fermentation was undertaken in five to 20 year old mainly French barriques. Only the subtlest of oak characters are evident on the palate due to the age of the oak.
The Characteristics: A brilliant green tinged gold appearance. The nose is generous and expressive with citrus such as grapefruit and lime evident alongside apricot stones, ginger, peach blossom and a subtle background of preserved lemons and honey.
The palate is tightly structured and youthful with apricot, peach blossom, lime and orange peel initially present. As the wine opens up a wonderful honey character shows itself with candied ginger nuances. Nutmeg and cinnamon linger with a long finish.
Although drinking well now, great structure and good natural acidity suggests this wine will age well over the next three to five years with the varietal apricot characters becoming more prominent.
The Vintage: 2008 was a fabulous vintage for white wines in McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills due to sufficient winter rains and cool conditions for most of the ripening period. The winter rain ensured the soil reached filled capacity and set the vines up perfectly. A normal spring and an unseasonably cool January and February meant the vines remained stress free and flavour ripeness was achieved at reasonably low sugar levels and high levels of natural acidity.The McLaren Vale fruit was picked during the cool February conditions. A run of hot days in early March helped ripen the cool climate vineyards of the Adelaide Hills.
The Winemaking: Full fermentation with near full solids in old oak was long and moderately cool to retain fruit characters. Only the free-run juice was used for the final wine without any malolactic fermentation. Fermentation was undertaken in five to 20 year old mainly French barriques. Only the subtlest of oak characters are evident on the palate due to the age of the oak.
| Rodzaj_zamknięcia | zamknięcie na zakrętkę |
| alkohol | 13,5 % |
| kategoria wina | wina białe |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | McLaren Vale |
| winogrona | Viognier |
| Rocznik | 2008 |
| cukier resztkowy | wytrawne |
| Kwasowość | Nie |
| Pojemnosc (l) | 0.750 |
| winnica | d'Arenberg |
| aromat | morelą, brzoskwinią |
| winiarz | Chester Osborn |
| O Winnicy | "d'Arenberg is one of the most significant wineries in McLaren Vale. In 1912 Joseph Osborn, a teetotaler and director of Thomas Hardy and Sons, purchased the well established Milton Vineyards in the hills just north of the townships of Gloucester and Bellevue, now just known as McLaren Vale. Joseph's son Francis Ernest (Frank') Osborn left medical school, choosing to forsake the scalpel for pruning shears. Fruit from the 78 hectares of vineyards was sold to local wineries until his own cellars were complete in 1928. Dry red table and fortified wines were produced in ever increasing quantities to supply the expanding markets of the Empire. In 1943 Frank's son Francis d'Arenberg, universally known as d'Arry', returned from school, age 16, to help his ill father run the business, eventually assuming full management of d'Arenberg in 1957. d'Arry bottled the first of the famous diagonal red stripe labelled wines two years later. d'Arenberg's wines of the 1960's gained immediate cult status amongst imbibers and judges. One Cabernet Sauvignon won a Jimmy Watson Trophy at the 1969 Royal Melbourne Wine Show and another Grenache - based wine was awarded 7 trophies and 29 gold medals from Australian capital city wine shows. It is understandable that by the 1970's d'Arenberg Wines had become very fashionable and had gained significant national and international profiles in less than 20 years. " |
| Styl wina | harmoniczny |
| Rodzaj Winogron | 100% Viognier |
