2023 Place of Changing Winds Harcourt Marsanne Roussanne (1500ml)

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Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

This wine comes from the ‘grower’ series of wines, from a site in Harcourt, in the Bendigo wine region. It’s pressed off and sent to barrels of varied sizes, concrete egg and WineGlobe glass fermenter. No fining or filtering. This sits at medium weight, slippery and glossy in texture, quietly concentrated with light honeyed elements in just-ripe nectarine, just-ripe peach, a tangerine element, faint vanilla cream notes and a sprinkle of cinnamon spice. It feels like the bandwidth delivers complexity, layers to flavour, appeal in the fog of sweeter fruit spectrum characters, a bit of pawpaw bitter-sweet in the mix overall too. Captures attention, delivers depth, feels composed. Class act.