Greenhough Apple Valley Nelson Riesling 2015
Description
This medium-‐sweet, fragrant style is reminiscent of a fresh, ripe apple delicately scented with citrus blossom. There is a lightness and liveliness to the feel of this wine in the mouth. The palate is concentrated and linear beginning bursting with juicy, sweet fruit up front and flowing seamlessly to a refreshingly long finish.
This Riesling is grown on the Barraud Vineyard, Upper Moutere, where the weathered clay soils slope gently to the edge of the Waimea Inlet. Hand harvested from 12 year old vines planted at a moderate density of 3400 per hectare, we take the fruit while AVR15brix levels are low. We pick only the cleanest of fruit to promote the purest flavours.
The fruit is gently whole bunch pressed and settled before it is inoculated with a low vigour, aromatic yeast and cool fermented. At the point that sugar and acidity come into balance, the wine is chilled to stop the fermentation. The Apple Valley style typically sits somewhere between 35 and 45 grams of residual sugar with alcohol in the lower range of 8.5-10 percent. Key to the style is a precise balance between retained sweetness and racy acidity. Delicate citrus florals combine with fresh, red apples, nectarines and flinty notes. The palate is light yet deliciously juicy and sweetly fruited. This sweetness is underpinned by a lively, intensifying acidity which emerges seamlessly and extends to a long and elegantly refreshing finish.
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