Pewsey Vale 10 Year Museum Reserve The Contours Riesling
Pewsey Vale 10 Year Museum Reserve The Contours Riesling
Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours is characterised by a special site, sensitive vine growing and astute winemaking. The Contours Riesling is produced from old vines grown on the coolest slope within this ruggedly beautiful single vineyard. After 10 years in the bottle the 2009 Pewsey Vale Contours Riesling is showing all the poise and intensity that you would expect in a great bottle aged Riesling.
Wine Production
Sealing a bottle under a screw cap ensures that the wine in the bottle will age under the best possible conditions and ensures that no air or oxygen can enter the bottle. The fresh citrus flavors remain, and are overlaid with flavors of toast, lemon grass and eventually some honey and marmalade. The color, while it will deepen into the gold spectrum, retains its freshness and green hues and does not go brown, and that the flavors and palate do not "dry out",but stay fresh with any sweet fruit characters that were initially in the wine remaining.
Tasting Notes
Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours Riesling 2009 is a rich and intensely flavoured wine. Pale straw with green hues, the aromas are intense but restrained with classic lemon and a floral influence with nuances of bottle aged toast, clove oil and lemongrass. The palate shows great length and depth with limes, toasted brioche, sage oil and lemongrass. The wine finishes with a fresh natural acidity that balances the flavour intensity.
Food Pairing
Try with five spice glazed duck breast, seared scallops and butter sauce or roasted cauliflower soup.
Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours is characterised by a special site, sensitive vine growing and astute winemaking. The Contours Riesling is produced from old vines grown on the coolest slope within this ruggedly beautiful single vineyard. After 10 years in the bottle the 2009 Pewsey Vale Contours Riesling is showing all the poise and intensity that you would expect in a great bottle aged Riesling.
Wine Production
Sealing a bottle under a screw cap ensures that the wine in the bottle will age under the best possible conditions and ensures that no air or oxygen can enter the bottle. The fresh citrus flavors remain, and are overlaid with flavors of toast, lemon grass and eventually some honey and marmalade. The color, while it will deepen into the gold spectrum, retains its freshness and green hues and does not go brown, and that the flavors and palate do not "dry out",but stay fresh with any sweet fruit characters that were initially in the wine remaining.
Tasting Notes
Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours Riesling 2009 is a rich and intensely flavoured wine. Pale straw with green hues, the aromas are intense but restrained with classic lemon and a floral influence with nuances of bottle aged toast, clove oil and lemongrass. The palate shows great length and depth with limes, toasted brioche, sage oil and lemongrass. The wine finishes with a fresh natural acidity that balances the flavour intensity.
Food Pairing
Try with five spice glazed duck breast, seared scallops and butter sauce or roasted cauliflower soup.
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About the Vineyard
The 2009 vintage continues a long run of great vintages from Pewsey Vale Vineyard. The wines were powerful and limey, with amazing natural acidity. After a dry winter and spring, the vines got off to a good start and set well balanced crops. The heat wave in January, while not ideal, caused few problems. The weather in February, March and into April was cool with particularly cool nights - absolutely perfect for slow ripening, accumulation of flavours and retention of natural acid.