Lark Hill Viognier 2013 (Canberra)
12%, Screwcap, $25
This is the best Lark Hill Viognier to date.
Lark Hill have clearly worked the V weed to show its best here, with the Carpenter’s using a combination of mid season picking (to retain freshness) and a little wild fermentation in old wood to give that combination of both freshness and richness.
Clear and crisp, it’s rather floral to smell (good), the palate a tussle between blistering grapefruit acidity to match the Viognier peach skin richness, the balance actually pretty good, helping making this more than drinkable.
A viable challenger to the more tropical Marlborough Sauv style, this is not profound but pretty clever wine.
Source: Sample
Tasted: Feb 2014
Drink: 2014-2016
Score: 17.5/20, 91/100
Would I buy it? I’d drink a glass.
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