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NOTES
Grosset Wines is an independently owned winery set in the Clare Valley producing just six highly regarded premium wines each vintage. Established in 1981 by Jeffrey Grosset in the historic township of Auburn in the southern tip of the Clare Valley 100 kilometres north of Adelaide, the winery is stylish but functional and reflects the attention to detail that extends to the Grosset estate-owned Clare Valley vineyards and to the winemaking.
TASTING NOTES
Since the first release of Grosset Piccadilly in 1993, these wines have made a powerful statement about the potential of the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills, a sub-region so cool that it is often considered marginal for table wine. 'It's a sub-region that takes time to understand', says Grosset, 'and the wines can be exquisite'.
This is a classy white that shows some gentle cedary influence at this stage, is delicate and subtle restrained, lean, tightly structured, fine and focused, showing white peach, guava and grapefruit flavours, before a fresh, vibrant dry finish featuring some savoury, minerally notes that persist. The palate is seamless and delightfully viscous, with good weight, concentration and balance. It is a picture of restraint at present and will repay even short term cellaring after which its layers of complexity will be more evident. Matured in French oak barriques (fifty percent new) for ten months, only half the blend underwent malolactic fermentation.
PAST REVIEWS
Grosset’s Chardonnay is looking every bit the part with edgy solids-derived complexity layered across Adelaide Hills stone fruits and citrus hints – mouthwatering stuff. Peach and orange citrus flavours are dressed in gently nutty oak complexity with a creamy texture and a punchy, driven finish. 93 Points Nick Stock, WBM April 2009
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