Estate 2024 Late Harvest Viognier (375ml)
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Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, 94 Points – “This is instantly appealing on the nose with notes of dried apricot, honey, lemon cured, and marmalade. The palate displays succulent fruit intensity with creamy texture and attractive sweetness, splendidly balanced by bright acidity, making it delicious and highly enjoyable. At its best: now to 2030."
A rare treat following on from the 1989, 1999 and 2000 late harvest wines - scrumptious!
Colour:
Clean, clear and bright pale gold shimmer, moderate intensity and cling.
Nose:
Clean youthful aromas of apricot preserve and brandy snap with a honeyed citrus nuance.
Tasting Notes:
Clean medium-bodied flavours of apricot nectar, passionfruit, ripe banana and quince which layer through the palate with moderate persistence, lifting to a long finish of glacé orange peel.
Winemaking:
After three successive cooler and wetter La Niña years (2021-2023), we experienced drier, warmer growing conditions in the 2024 growing season, conducive to a high-quality outcome given our elevated, cooler situation. A pre-flowering frost reduced net yield potential by 5% across blocks A, B and C. Ideal flowering conditions thereafter resulted in a good crop which produced grapes of clean and generous variety expression.
Food Matching:
Soft creamy blue, apple strudel with mascarpone. Or chicken liver pâté with capers on toasted white sourdough.
Cellaring:
Divine now, or cellar if you can and enjoy how it develops over the next 10+ years.
Technical Details
| Growing Area | Pyrenees |
| Date Bottled | 15 August 2024 |
| Alcohol % | 11% |
| Residual Sugar | 135g/L |
| pH | 3.31 |
Delivery & Shipping Details
Mount Avoca uses Australia Post to ensure a reliable and efficient delivery service to every location across Australia. If you are not at home to accept your delivery, they may leave your wine in a safe place or leave a card for collection from your nearest post office. The more detail you provide in 'delivery instructions' the more likely a seamless delivery.
Please contact us if you have any delivery concerns, or if you need to make alternative arrangements.
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FREE Valet Wine storage
If you would like to build your wine collection but lack the space, Mount Avoca has recently launched a free Valet Wine storage service in our temperature controlled cellar.
Pricing & Delivery Costs
We offer free freight for our Silver, Gold, Trophy and Wine Club members and anyone can enjoy free freight for orders over $350. Other orders will display the freight cost at checkout.
Delivery Times
Please allow 3–5 working days for delivery to capital cities and 1–2 weeks for regional areas and interstate, though we've noticed that delivery times have taken longer since Covid 19 came and went. Customer service is important to us; if we foresee a problem with your delivery we will contact you to discuss it. The above times are guidelines only and may be faster or slower depending on your location.
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Requirements
- Please include clear delivery instructions and a telephone number on all orders.
- Wine damaged in transit will be returned to Mount Avoca and we will contact you to make alternative arrangements. Please get in touch if your wine hasn't arrived after a week or two as we will be unaware of this for the 4 to 8 weeks it can take to be returned.
- Undeliverable wine will be returned to Mount Avoca and we will contact you to make alternative arrangements. Undeliverable wine will incur an administration fee of $30 for re-shipping.
- As we have no control over shipping Mount Avoca takes no responsibility for the delivery times or loss of orders. However, your satisfaction is paramount so we will always work hard to ensure you wine is delivered promptly.
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