The third release of Terre à Terre’s Wrattonbully Cabernet Sauvignon and the wine has never looked better. Talk about hitting the ground running. I’m aware that the word minerality carries a lot of baggage and is amorphous – for me, poetic slippage between shape, texture and flavour with an overwhelmingly positive loading – but quite…
DetailsHere’s a fine example of where what you leave out, is often more important than what you put in. In this case, they’ve left out loading it up with gross oak and reckless chemistry set tartaric acid additions: the Achilles heel of the Limestone Coast. This was raised for 7 months in four year old…
DetailsA mere 5% spends time in oak, but that small detail lends the curl of texture and perfume that gives the wine an x-factor of further interest. Flavours are intense with driving exotic tropical fruit character, but tighten up and show fine structure through the finish. Interesting. Author: Mike Bennie Source: Parade Magazine Review Date:…
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Our Terre à Terre vineyard in Wrattonbully is celebrating its 10 anniversary this year. What was once a bare piece of grazing land south east of Naracoorte, just next door to Tapanappa’s Whalebone Vineyard, is now an 8-hectare close-spaced (1.5m x 1.5m), low trellised (50cm above ground) single vineyard. This 8-hectare block had caught the…
DetailsMatched to a dish of Beef Carpaccio with horse radish and creme fraiche dressing: “Run and managed by husband and wife Lucy Croser and Xavier Bizot, this is an approachable, punchy style with upfront passionfruit and tropical characters. Although primary now, it’s built to age gracefully. This dish has a well- balanced marriage of rich,…
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Vintage 2014 – Terre à Terre vineyard Our unique closed-spaced Terre à Terre vineyard in Wrattonbully has produced what will probably be our best fruit thus far. Climate The 2014 growing season was very challenging to start with, cool and humid weather around flowering and severe heatwaves in January and early February; however, the growing…
DetailsVinexpo Asia Pacific 2014 Daosa, along with the rest of the Terre à Terre wines will be in Hong Kong at the Wine Australia stand at Vinexpo. We’d love you to come and say hi and try our wines.
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Great start with the Sauvignon Blanc Probably amongst the best Sauvignon Blanc from our Terre à Terre vineyard was hand picked on 13 and 14 March 2014. The fruit was picked at relatively low sugars (11.5 Bé), with great flavours and acid. Now settling safely in tanks at the winery at Piccadilly. Moonrise on Terre…
DetailsAs part of her Limestone Coast regional tour, Sarah Ahmed has produced a detailed article on the geology and associated wines of the Wrattonbully region, including a look at the Terre à Terre vineyard. Read the full article here: http://www.thewinedetective.co.uk/blog/australia/the-limestone-coast-par… Her reviews of the wines are reproduced below. Terre á Terre Sauvignon Blanc 2012 (Wrattonbully)…
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All the vineyard is in full bloom and beyond full bloom, starting to set. Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc started late and rushed the flowering process in a few days, making the most of the good sunny weather. Cabernet Franc and Shiraz were early and were slower to get through flowering, which will probably mean…
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