Wine Entry Detail

Entry Information
Exhibitor	Billy Button Wines
Show	2018
Class	13
Entry Number	13#7
Brand	Clay Pot Wines
Wine Name	Taurian
Vintage	2016
Origin	Single Vineyard
Commercial Label	Yes
Availability	Billy Button Cellar Door

Judging Results
Medal / Award	Silver
Trophy	Chief of Judges Wine to Watch
Judge 1	Lifted orange rind, fennel, dried yellow flowers. Savoury complexity. Pepper, cardamon. Chalky texture and balanced bitterness. Savoury and appetising.
Judge 2	gun powder smoke, chock and flinty characters, a bit of va yet still youthful and fresh. good texture and flesh
Judge 3	anitipasto, pickles, grass clippings, ditto palate, digestif bitterness builds through mid to finish, all there but a touch hard.
Associate Judge	Mid straw. Veil of H2S. Gingernut, grilled nuts baked pastry and lemon tart. Creamy and fresh. Slightly too hot.

Varietal: Friulano, GI: Tasmania, 100%
Clone	Bests 23, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Elevation	40 Metres above sea level
Planted	2012
Irrigation	Dripper
Growing Method	Conventional
Harvest Date	19 / Mar / 2016

Wine Making Information
Ferment	Clay Amphorae 100%
Maturation	Plastic 100%
Bottling Date	14 / Mar / 2017
Closure	Screw
Cases Produced	54
Force Class	False
Winemaking Note	100% skin fermented in a 600L clay amphora, on skins for 215 days
Winemaker Note	Glenn James