Five star Printhie’s Sauvignon Blanc wins Trophy for Best Small Vigneron in Canberra
A five star James Halliday rating in 2009 and 2010 promised to make Printhie Wines a pretty good winery to look at when I came across the results of the latest cool climate wine show in Canberra:
Printhie Wines in Orange NSW
The Sauvignon Blanc is a bit of a landmark for Printhie wines - 15 wines they serve in total at their cellar door close to Orange in NSW. While harvesting this year, the juice required little fining or acidification prior to fermentation. Winemaker Drew Tuckwell explains that "selected commercial yeasts were used for fermentation to highlight fruit purity and maintain a clean aromatic profile". He uses stainless steel tanks for fermentation exclusively to retain the aromatic intensity and complexity of the wine and filters the wine immediately after fermentation and bottles it early to capture it in its freshest state.
I find the bouquet quite intense and full of grapefruit and lime, the palate offers generous fruit flavours supported by lively acidity. The wine has a great length and persistence with a dry finish, great with the fish and aspargus we are having tonight.
Winemaker Drew Tuckwell spent several years in Europe and after four years in Adelaide and vintage work with Wirra Wirra Vineyard in McLaren Vale, he settled in Mudgee NSW to start playing with Italian varieties like Sangiovese, Barbera and Pinot Grigio, as well as the more traditional varieties such as Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet.
Today this is a great combination: the cool climate Orange region with its arguably not very cool climate hot summer days, a family owned winery with enough capacity to try out things and a winemaker who has learned the trade at famous other places – Printhie Wines is a winery to watch out for and I really liked their 2009 Sauvignon Blanc – well deserved its win in Canberra a few days ago.
__________________________________________________________
Printhie Wines hat vor wenigen Tagen die Trophaee des besten Weines kleiner Produzenten in Canberra gewonnen. Der Sauvignon Blanc ist ein herrlich fruchtiger Vertreter seiner Zunft, erstaunlich hierbei dass zwischen Gewinn des Preises und der Ernte der Trauben gerade einmal 11 Wochen gelegen haben.
Ein wunderbarer Vertreter seiner australischen Sav Blanc Zunft – ich geniesse den Printhie Wein zu einem gegrillten Lachs auf Spargel an einem dieser ersten Fruehlingstage hier in Australien 2009. Einfach herrlich.
Ihr Michael Brecht
Hat Ihnen dieser Blogeintrag gefallen? Wir freuen uns über Ihren Kommentar. or Abonnieren Sie den downunderwines.net-RSS-Feed und sind immer informiert.
Comments
Dear Jane, thank you for your comment re. Printhie wines. To answer your question, we do not have any details of Printhie exporting wines to the UK but here is a link to their ‘Direct Orders’ website, good luck: http://www.printhiewines.com.au/pages/orders.html
Downunder Wines will start exporting selected exclusive wines from next year onwards, you may want to subscribe to our blog to receive further updates on when and what we’ll do.
Michael and your Downunder Wines Team
[...] such as Philip Shaw with his Koomooloo Vineyard, the famous Printhie Wines with winemaker Drew Tuckwell or Stephen and Rhonda Doyle as two of the pioneers of the Orange wine [...]