A new friend kindly gave this bottle of wine to Nic for a birthday present recently. The Barossa is strange; everyone is linked in some way. Some people describe it as 'incestuous', but I wouldn't go that far. :) For example, our neighbour across the road was born at Hentley Farm and spent some early years of his life there. He has a family history book with b&w photos and everything. Nowadays it is a successful winery and restaurant. Now our friend's fiance is one of the winemakers (not naming names :P). So, we are all connected in this nice little nest of Barossan love. Aww. (Still get that warm fuzzy feeling when I spot Maggie Beer out doing her grocery shopping at the markets.. hehehehehe nervous awe).
I had expected some classic viognier varietal stuff in this bottle, which we didn't get. Don't get me wrong, it is a lovely wine to drink, however in a blind tasting I would struggle to name its varietal correctly. That might just be my palate, but hey. Because of the viognier I described to the man in the Smelly Cheese stall at Adelaide market, the cheese match (some version of reggiano which is slightly softer and very nice), doesn't quite go.
Hentley Farm
2012 Viognier
Barossa Valley
Colour:
clear
pale lemon
Nose:
clean
medium intensity
grapefruit
almonds
lemon blossom
Palate:
dry
high acid
medium bodied (:( )
juicy mandarin to begin with
then bitter grapefruits or bitter lemon
nutty
towards the end- a tiny tiny bit of fresh apricot- if I close my eyes and imagine hard enough and click my little red sparkly shoes together...
*there is a weird petrolly flavour usually associated with aged riesling-- curiouser and curiouser...
Overall a nice, easy drinking white, just not the medium-full bodied full on apricot type of drop you might expect. With age? Who knows what might happen in the future? Interesting....
G
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