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  • Country ranking ?

    199
  • Producer ranking ?

    6
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Salmon with Mushroom Sauce

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The Story

As Shiraz is to our 1860 vines plantings, so Marsanne is to our 1927 vines; producing distinctive, single vineyard releases from vines that are amongst the oldest of that varietal in the world.
The  fruit for the ‘1927 Vines’ releases is harvested early at high natural acid levels, with the resultant wine ‘water white’ and having almost no flavour.
Once bottled the magic then happens over time as it evolves into a wonderful, textural, minera...

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Wine Information

The first overland route from Melbourne (Port Phillip) to Sydney (Port Jackson) from 1836 to 1843, passed through the land now known as Tahbilk (Melbourne itself was first settled in 1835).

In 1860 (ironically the same year that Phylloxera was first observed in France) Melbourne businessmen, including John Pinney Bear (whose family later took control of the Estate), formed a company to create a vineyard on the Goulburn River, with the grand...

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Straw and Bright

ending

Long, Extensive and Flavorful

nose

Wide, Pure, Fresh and Seductive

taste

Average in Acidity, Warming, Balanced, Well-structured, Complex, Medium-bodied, Rich, Full and Toasty

Written Notes

I'll confess to being very surprised when this was revealed. It certainly showed the characters of a good Marsanne, but this particular wine has always absolutely shone. I would have expected a little more. But certainly decent by any standards. Spice, very fresh and showing lots of life – I had not picked it to be a decade old. Some hints of dry honey and green herbal touches. All very good but the slight hiccup was that it did not have the length one would expect at the top end, and certainly the length that this wine has revealed in the past. From what are believed to be the oldest Marsanne vines on the planet.
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At nine years of age, this still has the spring of youth in its step. Made for the long haul, picked accordingly, and so I subsequently learned modelled on Hunter Semillon.

That aromatic freshness is there from the first ball: citrus, particularly lemon with hints of blossom, preserved lemons and wax. Delve a little deeper to reveal a little nutty, pithy, fibrous edge - fresh ginger, galangal perhaps.

Bracing acidity, fore and aft, flowing through the wine - Timothy Francis Leary would have fun with this. In my notes I wrote that it was almost Riesling-esque, a fair comment on reflection. It's not so much the honeyed, nutty Marsanne that you might be used to. But do understand this: it's an incredible wine, built for the long haul and quite remarkable to be offered to market at just shy of a decade old.

Finishing fine and long, you'd have to be a bit of an acid head to appreciate it now, but at nine years old it is a mere pup. 95 

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Origin

Nagambie, Victoria

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

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None
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