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TASTING NOTES
Colour: Lemon green / gold at the edge with a hint of burnished copper and gold deep in the glass.
Aroma: Complex rancio aged character with biscuit oak, marmalade and dried potpourri Muscat.
Palate: Balanced sweetness with remarkable aged complexity and lingering oak vanillin.
Food matching: Best as an aperitif with shortbreads after a long day.
Cellaring: Best as now, like all fortified wines, blended to be optimum on release.
Alcohol: 18.0% Standard drinks: approx 5.3
TECHNICAL NOTES
Region: Margaret River
Vintage notes: This is a non vintage wine with an average age of 5 years
Composition: Verdelho 40 % Muscat 60%
Winemaking: Very ripe Verdelho and Muscat was fermented to mid dryness then fortified with clean grape spirit. Every year, barrels of different age have been racked and blended to produce this fine style, a mixture of base wine of varying age and part of which still remains in the “solera” to be bottled at peak maturity.
pH: 3.70
Acidity: 5.7 g/l
Residual sugar: 3.2 Baume
Closure: Cork Stopper
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