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Entry Information
Exhibitor First Drop Wines
Show 2018
Class 32B
Entry Number 32B#18
Brand First Drop Wines
Wine Name The Big Blind Adelaide Hills Nebbiolo Barbera
Vintage 2015
Origin Single Vineyard
Commercial Label Yes
Availability First Drop Cellar Door
Judging Results
Medal / Award Silver
Judge 1 Dark, semi mature dried fruit style drinking well
Judge 2 Savoury, cedary, flinty mineral crunch but too oaky and dried out. Started well but lost the palate.
Judge 3 Lifted some some VA, Alc and fruit but all in balance. Really long palate with fine tannins. Super wine.
Associate Judge brown colour, aged aroma, tomato leaf, dried fruit, cedery fruit palate, some complexity and good line, looks a little aged??
Varietal: Nebbiolo, GI: Adelaide Hills, 75%
Clone Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Soil Type Clay,Loam
Elevation 340 Metres above sea level
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional
Crop Yeild 8.00 Tonnes / Ha
Harvest Date 12 / Mar / 2015
Varietal: Barbera, GI: Adelaide Hills, 25%
Clone Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Soil Type Clay,Loam
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional
Crop Yeild 8.00 Tonnes / Ha
Harvest Date 05 / Mar / 2015
Wine Making Information
Ferment Stainless Steel 100%
Maturation Small Format Oak 100%
Bottling Date 12 / Aug / 2016
Closure Screw
Cases Produced 300
Force Class False
Winemaker Note Matt Gant