Water Wheel Memsie White 2007

88 pts Wine Spectator Magazine Ripe and spicy, with a wet hay edge to the pear, pineapple and cream flavors.

Tasting Notes

Golden straw in colour with brilliant clarity. The palate has a veritable fruit salad of flavours with hints of apple, melon and pear combining with cashew and honey to produce a smooth, rich and viscous mouth feel. The wine has a clean, persistent and well defined finish balanced with some tantalizing acidity.

Food Accompaniments

Memsie wines are great with a variety of foods. Try this as an aperitif or with a wide range of white meats and seafood.

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

88 pts Wine Spectator Magazine (HS)
Ripe and spicy, with a wet hay edge to the pear, pineapple and cream flavors. Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Roussanne. Drink now.

87 pts Robert Parker Jr.'s The Wine Advocate (JM)
White values $20 and under. Tasted and recommended, but no tasting note given.

Winemaker Notes

Each variety was fermented separately in stainless steel, and then blended together before stabilizing and filtration.
Soil is deep ripped before planting. Vines are spaced at approx one metre, with around 20 buds per vine, and hedged trellised, exposing the grapes to the sun to achieve maximum ripeness. They are cane pruned one year in four followed by three years of spur pruning. All vines are irrigated from the nearby Loddon river with ground level mini sprays. White wine grapes are planted lighter, better drained soil.

Chemical Analysis

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Alcohol: 13.1%. On label 13.5%
pH: 3.24
Total Acid: 6.3 g/L
Residual Sugar: 6.2 g/L
Free/Total Sulfur: 36 / 135 mg/L

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Dry White