Wine Entry Detail

Entry Information
Exhibitor	Topper's Mountain Wines
Show	2025
Class	16
Entry Number	16#8
Brand	Topper´s Mounatin
Wine Name	Finder Gewurztraminer
Vintage	2023
Origin	Single Vineyard
Viticulturist Name	Mark Kirkby
Commercial Label	Yes
Availability	Australia

Judging Results
Medal / Award
Overall Score	84
Judge 1	Some colour. Complex savoury, smoky and biscuity notes. Grainy phenolics adding texture. Mid-weight. A note of astringency on the end. More about texture than fruit.
Judge 2	Some colour, indicative of skins or bottle age. More developed aromatics so it's age. Nose has some dried rose petal & straw but not the lifted freshness that makes the variety charming. Palate is clean, some aged characters, not unpleasant bitterness.
Judge 3	Medium gold with a reductive nose of struck match & burnt rubber, the palate has texture, more of a fruit component - peach, cooked apricot - but finishes on the smoky flavour it started with.
Associate Judge	smoky, sweaty reduction on nose. phenolic coarse, some unpleasent oxydative character on palate. short finish, wine unbalanced

Varietal: Gewurztraminer, GI: New England Australia, 100%
Clone	Penfold T6, Roostock: NONE - Own Roots, 70%
Clone	Penfold T6, Roostock: 110 Richter, 30%
Soil Type	Basalt,Deep,Loam,Volcanic
Elevation	900 Metres above sea level
Planting Density	2424 Vines / Ha
Planted	2002
Irrigation	None
Growing Method	Conventional

Wine Making Information
Maturation	Large Format Oak 100%
Closure	Screw
Cases Produced	90
Force Class	False
Winemaker Note	Jan Taborsky