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Entry Information
Exhibitor Drakesbrook Wines
Show 2013
Class 5
Entry Number 5#12
Brand Drakesbrook Wines
Wine Name Wildbird Savagnin
Vintage 2012
Origin Single Vineyard
Commercial Label Yes
Availability Liquorbarons Jolimont
Judging Results
Medal / Award Silver
Judge 1 lot going on - full flavours and crisp
Judge 2 Some fusel like qualities.Leesy flavours with a quartz like acid. Stone like.Interesting but lacks some mid palate creamy.Gd phenolic chew.Fun. BIG
Judge 3 Clean but lanoliny nose. Creamy almost? Lovely texture, clean and bright finish. A touch lacking in fruit but makes for with texture and length. A thinking persons wine.
Varietal: Savagnin, GI: Peel, 100%
Clone Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Soil Type Gravel
Elevation 165 Metres above sea level
Planting Density 1600 Vines / Ha
Planted 2009
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional
Crop Yeild 3.00 Tonnes / Ha
Harvest Date 27 / Feb / 2012
Rainfall 1100 (mm) Rainfall from July to June in the year(s) of harvest
Wine Making Information
Ferment Stainless Steel 100%
Maturation Old Barrel 100%
Closure Screw
Cases Produced 125
Force Class False