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| Southern Highland Wines offers four distinct ranges, select a logo to view. |
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| 005 RESERVE CHARDONNAY |
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Tasting Note: The 2005 Reserve Chardonnay is the first of our Oldbury Range. The fruit was carefully selected from a premium site within the Southern Highlands district. A fine well balanced chardonnay showing citrus, pineapple and sweet vanilla aromas. The palate is full flavoured, fruit driven with elegant nutty characters. This combination has been achieved through ripe cool climate chardonnay barrel aged in American oak for a period of 9 months.
Enjoy with: This wine would be best suited to creamy poultry dishes or lighter meat dishes.
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| 004 RESERVE SHIRAZ |
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Tasting Note: The 2004 Reserve Shiraz is the first of our Oldbury Range. The fruit was carefully selected from a premium site within the Southern Highlands district. A fine well balanced Shiraz showing rich fruit flavours of ripe berries, spicy chocolate & white pepper aromas. The use of American Oak has added characters of creamy vanilla.
Enjoy with: A perfect match for red meat dishes.
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| 2008 RIESLING |
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Tasting Note: The 2008 Riesling boasts a richly perfumed floral and citrus nose backed up by notes of spice and stone fruit. A good palate displays generous apricot and peach, lifted lemon/lime with a hint of cinnamon.
Cellaring: Drinking well now, this finely structured wine will cellar well.
Enjoy with: Creamy and full flavoured chicken and seafood dishes or spaced noodles. |
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| 008 SAUVIGNON BLANC |
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Tasting Note: The 2008 Sauvignon Blanc displays prominent lychee, passionfruit & Chinese gooseberry on both the nose & palate. The palate is lengthened by a clean, fresh herbaceousness that extends through the mouth leaving a full, round finish.
Cellaring: Drinking best now or within the next two years.
Enjoy with: Any seafood or mildly flavoured chicken dish. |
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| 2008 CHARDONNAY |
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Tasting Note: A fine well balanced cool climate chardonnay showing citrus, pineapple and a background of sweet vanillin aromas from the well handled American oak. Elegant fruit driven wine showing delightful bouquet and length of palate.
Cellaring: A wine to enjoy now; the wine will cellar well for another five years.
Food suggestion: Ocean trout, crayfish; try pan fried quail. |
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| 2008 PINOT GRIGIO |
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Tasting Note: The 2008 Pinot Grigio has subtle citrus & light floral notes lifted from a flinty mineral based background with pear & pink grapefruit imprints.
Cellaring: TBA
Food suggestion: A clean crisp & elegant wine well suited to poached or baked fish dishes & lightly spiced alfresco style meals. |
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| 2007 GOLDEN VALE BOTRYTIS CHARDONNAY |
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Tasting Note: Hot on the heels of our highly acclaimed 2007 Botrytised Sauvignon Blanc we have blended a small parcel of botrytised Sauvignon Blanc with Semillon from the Riverina which is the Australian home of the sticky. Our Blend has produced a very elegant wine showing delicate semi-dried peach notes with up front gooseberry aromas. A balanced and excellent fine acidity, luscious but not cloying mouth feel.
Cellaring: Drink now to 2010
Enjoy with: Deep fried camembert; hearty fruit flan |
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| 2006 PINOT NOIR |
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Tasting Note: Typically lighter in depth and colour; the wine shows ripe cherry notes with hints of game and forest floor. Good structure and layers of soft tannin, smooth velvety mouth feel.
Cellaring: Drink now to 2010
Enjoy with: Peking Duck; try with a seared salmon steak. |
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2005 SHIRAZ
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Tasting Note: Brick red in colour. Rich fruit flavours of ripe berries, spice and plumbs integrate well with subtle French oak characters. Well balanced acidity, delicate tannins and a mouth filling finish.
Cellaring: Although enjoyable now, will repay with medium term cellaring.
Enjoy with: Seared kangaroo fillets; full flavoured beef. Mature hard cheese. |
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| 2006 MERLOT |
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Tasting Note: Aged in French & American oak barriques for 18 months, the 2006 Merlot shows rich berry fruit on the nose infused with liquorice & leather. The palate has cassis overtones with horsy, barnyard characters & an earthy cedar wood toned finish.
Cellaring: Enjoyable now, will cellar well over the next three to four years.
Enjoy with: Best enjoyed with pot roasted meat dishes. |
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| 2006 CABERNET SAUVIGNON |
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Tasting Note:
Deep red in colour with complexity to match. Subtle blackcurrant & dark mint flavours combine with the sweet vanillan French oak characters. An excellent match with venison dishes.
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| 2007 MOSCATO |
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Tasting Note: The Moscato is a fruit driven style made from muscat of Alexandria grapes. Our Moscato shows floral notes & hints of musk. The palate is full & slightly spritzy.
Enjoy with: chilled young & fresh, with or without food.
Alcohol 6.0% |
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| 2006 SHIRAZ SANGIOVESE |
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When Winemaker Eddy Rossi blended 40% Sangiovese into the 60% Shiraz. The result is spectacular; spicy Shiraz combined with expressive Sangiovese fruit flavours.
Alcohol 13.0% |
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| 2007 CLASSIC WHITE |
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Tasting Note:
Pale straw in colour. The elegance and flinty structure of the colombard (60%) has combined well with the fuller more intense flavours of chardonnay (40%) creating a very drinkable and balanced wine. Fruit for this wine was sourced from selected vineyards in New South Wales.
Cellaring: Enjoyable now.
Enjoy with: A wine to suit many food styles including chicken and stronger flavoured seafood. |
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| 2007 SEMILLON SAUVIGNON BLANC |
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Tasting Note: Gold-Green in colour. The blend of 60% Semillon and 40% sauvignon blanc has created a finely structured wine showing full flavoured complexity of Semillon herbaceousness with additional spicy notes of passionfruit of the sauvignon blanc. A very drinkable and balanced wine.
Cellaring: Delightful now.
Enjoy with: This ‘easy drinking’ wine compliments a variety of food from poultry to Thai cuisine. |
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| 2005 CABERNET MERLOT |
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Tasting Note:
Purple red in colour. A blend of two classic varieties, 80% cabernet sauvignon and 20% merlot has produced a delightful well balanced wine with rich and soft fruit flavours and subtle tannins. Fruit for this wine was sourced from specially selected vineyards in New South Wales.
Cellaring: Enjoyable now.
Enjoy with: Roasted pork ribs; Excellent with Italian food. |
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| 2005 SHIRAZ CABERNET |
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Tasting Note:
Red with purple hue. The mellow roundness of the shiraz has combined with the berry fruit character of the cabernet to produce a soft easy drinking style.
Cellaring: Best enjoyed now.
Enjoy With: A good Aussie barbeque. |
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| 2007 ROSE SAUVIGNON BLANC |
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Tasting Note: A rosé with a delightful pastel pink colour produced from sauvignon blanc fermented over shiraz skins. A wine with abundant ‘up front fruit’, delicious in the modern style, fresh, crisp, light & refreshing. Its subtle sweetness is well balanced by its crisp acidity & clean finish.
Cellaring: Enjoy this wine today.
Enjoy with: Seared tuna steak, brushed with fruity olive oil, smeared with an olive-based tepenade. |
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