Dandelion Vineyards Honeypot of the Barossa Roussanne 2023 (12 Bottles) Barossa Valley

by Wines Australia

$286.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Colour: Pale straw, clear and bright.

This Honeypot Roussanne was made entirely from Helen and Mark O’Brien’s remarkable vineyard. Whole bunches of hand tended and hand harvested Roussanne was picked in the cool of early morning. After gentle crushing the free run juice was fermented in a stainless steel tank and bottled a few months later under screw cap to ensure the wine is just as our vineyard produced and winemaker intended.

Nose: Absolute aromatics of the roussannegrape: honeysuckle, pear skin, green table grapes, apple, hints of musk and nano-hints of cinnamon. All standing to attention in the dawn’s new light.

Palate: Racing acidity and mouth-puckering pace combined with and balanced by a pleasantly mouth-filling texture and grip. Pear, quince, custard-fruit. Dry. Long. The most important aspect of this wine – both in terms of aromatics and taste – is the way it re-defines roussanne’s relationship with humanity. Traditionally a broad, oily, rustic wine, ours is grown, picked and made with an eye the the variety’s more boyish (or is that girlish?) charm..

Drink:  Clean and lean enough to deal amicably with spicy chillied foodstuffs, but robust enough for a roast poussin. We defy anyone not to at the very least admire this wine. Most are amazed by it and love it, and want to chill it and want to drink more of it. If you want a white wine to call your very own.

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Five Red Star Winery: James Halliday 2020 Australian Wine Companion
“This is a highly impressive partnership between Peggy and Carl Lindner, Elena and Zar Brooks and Fiona and Brad Rey. It brings together vineyards spread across the Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Fleurieu Peninsula. Elena is not only the beautiful wife of industry dilettante Zar Brooks, but also an exceptionally gifted winemaker. It may be a dauntingly competitive marketplace, but there can be few more promising new ventures than this one.”

Gourmet Traveller Wine 2010 Best of the Best Nick Ryan
“Brooks has teamed up with his winemaking wife Elena, a woman whose talents are outweighed only by her tolerance, in an exciting new venture called Dandelion Vineyards. The approach is remarkably simple and sees Elena making wine from a suite of beautiful old vineyards identified by Carl Lindner and Brad Rey across that blessed curve that runs from the Barossa, up through the Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills and down into McLaren Vale. The result is a line-up of wines that show the best in dedicated viticulture and sensitive winemaking, abandoning clutter and artifice for purity and poise.”

Wines Australia

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