Middle-Earth Nelson Viognier 2021
The 2021 Middle-Earth Nelson Viognier is pale straw in colour and medium to full-bodied this Viognier has typical aromas of apricot and orange blossom, with just a hint of clean white smoke. The wine is both flavoursome and textural, the essence of fruit building and lingering on the palate.
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
This wine's structure
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
More details for this wine
| Brand | Middle-Earth |
|---|---|
| Region | Nelson |
| Variety | Viognier |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 13.0% |
| Food Pairing | Try with a Moroccan dish of lamb shanks and dried apricots or as an aperitif with walnut crackers, a ripe blue cheese and quince paste. |
| Notes | WINEMAKING: Machine harvested on the 27th of March and processed to the press without further crushing. Free-run and pressing juices were cold settled separately, however once clarified the pressings were such nectar that they were recombined with the mother juice. Twenty percent of the recombined juice was peeled off to a well -seasoned barrel for ferment and the remainder racked to tank. Both the barrel and tank were inoculated with a yeast strain from Viognier’s ancestral home - the Rhône. It was chosen for its capacity to produce fruit forward wines with suppleness and volume on the palate. Stylistically we have not previously had an oaked portion on our Viognier, but the acidity was such this vintage that a portion aged on gross yeast lees and allowed to complete malolactic fermentation was a real attribute to the final blend. The tank ferment was arrested with some surplus residual sugar thanking into account the dry barrel portion we would be adding back at blending. It was then promptly racked of gross yeast lees and allowed to rest on fine lees before blending of the two components in November and bottling early December. TASTING NOTE: Pale Straw in colour and medium to full-bodied this Viognier has typical aromas of apricot and orange blossom, with just a hint of clean white smoke. The wine is both flavoursome and textural, the essence of fruit building and lingering on the palate. This fleshy wine is afforded an elegance thanks to bright acidity and a phenolic skeleton together balancing the residual sugar and creating a lingering finish. |
| Country | New Zealand |
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
This wine's structure
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
More details for this wine
| Brand | Middle-Earth |
|---|---|
| Region | Nelson |
| Variety | Viognier |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 13.0% |
| Food Pairing | Try with a Moroccan dish of lamb shanks and dried apricots or as an aperitif with walnut crackers, a ripe blue cheese and quince paste. |
| Notes | WINEMAKING: Machine harvested on the 27th of March and processed to the press without further crushing. Free-run and pressing juices were cold settled separately, however once clarified the pressings were such nectar that they were recombined with the mother juice. Twenty percent of the recombined juice was peeled off to a well -seasoned barrel for ferment and the remainder racked to tank. Both the barrel and tank were inoculated with a yeast strain from Viognier’s ancestral home - the Rhône. It was chosen for its capacity to produce fruit forward wines with suppleness and volume on the palate. Stylistically we have not previously had an oaked portion on our Viognier, but the acidity was such this vintage that a portion aged on gross yeast lees and allowed to complete malolactic fermentation was a real attribute to the final blend. The tank ferment was arrested with some surplus residual sugar thanking into account the dry barrel portion we would be adding back at blending. It was then promptly racked of gross yeast lees and allowed to rest on fine lees before blending of the two components in November and bottling early December. TASTING NOTE: Pale Straw in colour and medium to full-bodied this Viognier has typical aromas of apricot and orange blossom, with just a hint of clean white smoke. The wine is both flavoursome and textural, the essence of fruit building and lingering on the palate. This fleshy wine is afforded an elegance thanks to bright acidity and a phenolic skeleton together balancing the residual sugar and creating a lingering finish. |
| Country | New Zealand |
