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Terra Felix Mouvedre 2007
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4 Silver medals.
8 Bronze medals including Decanter World Wine Awards.
"Twenty per cent of juice was run-off before fermentation, adding to the fruit profile but without unbalancing the tannins; good plum and black fruit flavours." - James Halliday.
This is a really interesting wine. Grapes are sourced from a vineyard close to Bendigo. They have just 5 acres of Mourvedre which they grow on, E'vette's Block.While most wineries prefer to use this as a blending grape, Terra Felix think it deserves to be produced as a single variety. On each of their labels they incorporate a little poetry and the words on the Mourvedre describe it well,
Mouvedre is most often blended in France with Grenache and Shiraz and often because traditional laws regulate that. But in Australia Winemakers are free to say why? What does it taste like on its own? So it’s only in New World Winemaking that sometimes free expression results in a whole new way of thinking about a grape variety. That is why when making this wine we did as little as possible to see what sort of natural flavours were there. And what a result! Unique aromatic spicy flavours that have a strong savoury slant are revealed. Mourvedre has high levels of natural acid so modern winemaking technology lent a hand with the use of micro-oxygenation. This involves carefully drip feeding tiny amounts of oxygen into the wine to enable it to soften and be approachable in a reasonable time. The Winemaker controls the process and if you like, dials up the mouthfeel to balance the savoury flavours.
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WBW Rating: 91/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Central Victoria |
Winemaker: Terry Barnett
Drink now until: 2014
Alc/Vol: 14.4 %
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