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NOTES
A new vineyard in an ancient place with a powerful philosophy entwining them.... Situated below the Mount Barker summit in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Ngeringa is tended by the overlooking mystique of the rocks that are the Mount Barker and the traditional lores that surround them. Nourished through the simplicity of biodynamic farming practices, we believe Ngeringa carries an energy which identifies its individuality and sense of place.
Erinn and Janet’s approach to both the growing and the making of the wine is purposely traditional doing much in the vineyard by hand and being as least interventionist in the winemaking as possible. They aim to create wines of a traditional style with elegance and structure. Their minimalist approach favours hand harvest and small batch winemaking, only wild fermentation and the use of minimal new (French) oak.
TASTING NOTES
White peach, lemon cream and the alluring scent of jasmine flower spring on the nose. On the palate there is wild yeast spiciness and subtle crouton toast along with white peach, Bosc pear and the delicacy of green tea. It is zesty with a textured finish lingering natural acid. A ripper.
PAST REVIEWS
This 2007 Chardonnay is beautiful. It essentially tastes of lemon and grapefruit but there's a good bit of nutty, creamy oak too - though it's the fruit that bursts through on the finish. Lots of finesse, line and length - this is outstanding. Drink: 2009-2013. 94 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Winefront May 27th, 2008
Chilled to an unseemly degree, this begrudgingly exuded a sharp whiff of something that smelled like old hessian phosphate sacks. It's akin to the acrid stone quarry whiff in the Ngeringa Viognier and Shiraz, and close to an edgy whiff you'll find in Chablis. I'd wear it as a perfume. It's as husky as Ann Bancroft in the morning. As it approaches a reasonable drinking temperature, the wine reflects shimmers and shards of hazelnut, ginger, Anjou pear, and honeycomb toffee. It's very pretty. But complex; serious ... richly textured, and unctuous but then quite mood altering as its tannins charge off toward the type of dried grass character which that whiff of hessian suggested in the beginning. 92+++ Points, Philip White, www.drankster.blogspot.com 12 Oct 08
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