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Dandelion Vineyards

2023

‘Wishing Clock of the Adelaide Hills’

Sauvignon Blanc   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia
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About

Elena really loves Sauvignon Blanc, but unfortunately it is a variety that is difficult to find great material in South Australia. Much of the clonal material produces too fruity of berries and lacks the savage herbaceous-ness that Sauvignon Blanc wants to show balanced by mouthwatering citrus and a mineral drive. There is a site in Woodside in the Adelaide Hills that Zar helped track down. This vineyard has heritage clone material but relatively young vines and is farmed by Michelle Cox and John Good. Bill & Vicki Borchardt own this little slice of Sauvy heaven atop Teakle’s Hill.

The fruit was hand selected and picked on the third week of March in the cool of early morning then de-stemmed in small batches without crushing the fruit followed by gentle pressing to tank. Only the free run juice is used and fermented with carefully selected yeasts in small tanks at a very cool temperature (11-14ºC). After primary fermentation finished the wine was cooled down even further to block secondary fermentation from being carried out. The wine aged in tank for four months prior to being bottled with a light filtration and sulfur addition.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vineyard: Borchardt Vineyard
  • Vine Age: 20-years-old
  • Soil Type: Brown clay over quartz & schist
  • Viticulture: Conventional
  • Fermentation: Inoculated — small stainless steel tanks
  • Aging: 4 months in stainless steel tanks
  • Alcohol: 11.5%
  • pH: 3.17
  • Total Acidity: 7.82 g/L
  • Total SO2: 101 ppm
  • Total Production: 2,000 cases
  • UPC: 9342160000072

Tasting Note

Bright and pale white gold. Brilliant. On the nose, there are bath salts and a mineral stridency, followed by ripe passionfruit, guava, and green bean. On the palate, this is a clean, bright and long, grassy and lemony dry white wine. It has the variety’s power and unmissable identity, but in a way that celebrates the acidity and the fresh and refined fruit; the balance and the long, clean finish.

Press & Reviews

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"The 2023 Wishing Clock of the Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc is bright and tropical, fresh and crunchy. It's a pleasure to drink, and it speaks clearly of the Adelaide Hills in its green apple, passion fruit, white pepper and aniseed spectrum of flavor. There's a little cassis, juniper and bramble in there too. Nice!"

- Erin Larkin
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Producer


Dandelion Vineyards

Region


Adelaide Hills

Country


Australia

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