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 2010 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
The 2010 Contours Museum Reserve is pale golden with green hues. Fresh toast with lime marmalade characters overlay the still intense classic fruit aromas of limes and lemons. The palate is citrus dominant with lemongrass, lime juice, hints of sage oil and marmalade, finishing with a crushed stone minerality. Vibrant and fresh, but with richness and intensity from its 10 years in the bottle. This wine will continue to age gracefully in the bottle for another 10 years.
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 2010 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
The 2010 Contours Museum Reserve is pale golden with green hues. Fresh toast with lime marmalade characters overlay the still intense classic fruit aromas of limes and lemons. The palate is citrus dominant with lemongrass, lime juice, hints of sage oil and marmalade, finishing with a crushed stone minerality. Vibrant and fresh, but with richness and intensity from its 10 years in the bottle. This wine will continue to age gracefully in the bottle for another 10 years.
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 2010 vintage growing season began with a cool, wet September and October, that meant that the Riesling vines grew slowly. Beautiful weather throughout November and December caused the vines to ‘take-off ’, grow healthily, and flower without impediment. An even summer followed with cool nights and no heat spikes - perfect for the ripening of flavours in the berries.