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Quite spicy, almost a cabbage thing happening, along with ripe lemon and apple. It’s savoury in a sort of lactic-fermenty-sauerkraut way, but also has fresh and spicy lemon barley and pear flavour, with a fine dusty texture, and good length. Acidity is balanced and cool, but there’s richness too. Very interesting. Hard wine to rate, because it’s likely to polarize. On balance, I like it.
91 points. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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Notes
2021 Frankland Estate Grüner Veltliner is grown on the certified-organic Isolation Ridge Vineyard. The family has grafted 0.5ha to Grüner Veltliner, which grows on a the top of a lean ridge to make the vines work. The VSP-trained vines sit on an east-facing slope so they get the morning sun rather than the more intense afternoon sun. The vines are farmed according to the Smith Cullam family’s standard organic regime. Berries and bunches are 20-30% bigger than Riesling, with reasonably tight bunches.
The juice is about equally split between barrel and tank. It’s left it on lees for as long as possible – in this case until early August. The lees bring a little softness, and Grüner has a softer acid profile than Riesling anyway, plus there’s that small bit of residual sugar to open the wine up on the palate.
This 2021 is juicy and fruitful with typical pear-pith Grüner character, good generosity of flavour and texture from lees and its 4g/L residual sweetness.
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