2023 ChaLou Riesling Orange Riesling

An off-dry style with a vibrant aroma. Fresh lemon peel and lifted white florals, hints orange blossom and tangerine peel. Detailed fine boned palate with juicy driving acidity.

Soil: Ordovician material approximately 460million years old.  It contains basic volcanic material; sandstone, siltstone breccia and conglomerate derived from basalt and andesite

Season: A cool wet season start to the growing season.   Mild temperatures throughout January and Febuary with grapes slowly ripening into March.  Care was taken in the vineyard to keep canopies open but with sufficient shading to preserve fruit from any sun damage.

Winemaking Notes:

Picked in the cool of the morning before whole bunch pressing

Gentle extraction to ensure low phenolics.

Fermented at cooler temperatures <14C with wild yeast.

Ferment was arrested with some residual sugar to obtain off-dry style balancing sugar with taut acidity.