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Billy Button Wines
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2025
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43
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43#4
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Billy Button
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'The Honest' Fiano
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NV
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Single Vineyard
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Brian Lewis
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Yes
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| Judging Results |
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Bronze
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87
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Oldest wine has good colour, tropical fruit, tinned pineapple juice and firm phenolic texture. Second wine bright acidity and extract, moderate length but otherwise a nice example of the variety. Youngest wine has a slightly candied fruit profile, bright acidity, melon, but a salty character that isn’t as noticeable in the first two wines.
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consistent style through the group. oldest wine starting to tire and looking a bit cheesy and bitter edged
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Very good intensity and texture to the oldest wine; a sense of the young fruit in a bottle-matured phase, fresh still. The middle showing a younger version of the same; the youngest a little embryonic (with associated young wine character) but the line and intensity and cleanly presented and in keeping.
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Complex but more brooding, savoury style overall. Aromatically infused with savouriness even for the youngest wine, moving clearly into caramelised tones with biscuity development in the oldest despite lovely complexity. A touch off on freshness as a set with notes on each wine pointing one way or the other.
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each wine quite different style, not a strong thread, 2021 very good though
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| Varietal: Fiano, GI: Alpine Valleys, 100% |
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Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
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Conventional
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| Wine Making Information |
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Screw
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False
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2016, 2021, 2025
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Glenn James & Jo Marsh
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