Wine shows are serious business for small boutique vineyards, especially new businesses like us, who are trying to get their name and brand established. In fact, as a wine grower, if you were granted three wishes, one might very well be winning gold medals and trophies in your first three wine shows ! Last weeks 2007 Tasmanian wine show was another pleasant surprise for Three Wishes Vineyard. Following on from a gold medal in our first release Pinot from last years show, we were fortunate enough to win a gold medal again this year, but surprisingly in our 2006 Riesling. I hadn’t thought much about this wine winning a gold medal …. not for any reason except that it was rushed from the winery and I havent really spent any time getting to know it (read –I haven’t drunk much of it yet !!). Its big, aromatic and spicy on the nose (similar to our 05 Riesling) with a long, powerful palate of tropical fruit and Muscat, lime. In fact, it is very similar to our 05 but its up a few notches in intensity !
Although we didn’t get a royal flush of gold medals across our other varieties this year, we did get in fact get a flush ! Our 05 Chardonnay, just starting to develop some real character, won a silver (narrowly missing out on a gold) in its first show, and our 05 Pinot won a Bronze medal. Not a surprise to those who love this wine, it needs some time to develop some secondary flavours and complexity. The local wine writer here in Tassie visited our cellar door last week, and said drinking our 05 Pinot is “like sitting on a velvet couch”!! It has silky smooth tannins with big raspberry and plumb fruit, it just needs some earthiness and gamey overtones, which most frequently come with bottle age in Pinot ( a 1 YEAR OLD Pinot is just a baby !)..and keep in mind Halliday wrote this wine is a 10 year Pinot !. Any way, for those interested, Ill send out an e-mail when the 06 Riesling is ready for sale (probably mid/late 2007). Be sure to sign-up to our mailing list if you want such updates.
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