Introduction: Ninth Island, although often shrouded by ocean mists, is visible from our vineyards in northern Tasmania. The island name has been used for our range of fresh, early drinking style wines that capture the distinctive cool-climate flavours and nature of Tasmania.
Season: The 2009 growing season was characterised by almost perfect conditions for flowering and fruit set, followed by long warm summer ripening days in the season. As a result of well balanced vines, the small bunches and berries have contributed to our Chardonnay achieving full flavour ripeness with soft expressive tropical aromatics, clean crisp acid and long flowing flavour on the finish, distinctive for our chardonnay grown in this cool maritime climate.
Viticulture: The vines are spur pruned trellis and grown as a Vertical Shoot Positioning (VSP) system. This helps to expose the maturing bunches to the sun and provides a balanced crop load, thus allowing the fruit to achieve good ripeness with well-balanced flavours. Vineyards in the Tamar and Pipers River/Pipers Brook regions provide long, slow ripening conditions for this otherwise quick-to-ripen variety which enables good flavour accumulation and plenty of natural acidity in the fruit at harvest time.
Colour: Very bright, lemon yellow, with a hint of lime. Bouquet: Fragrant, lifted aromas of freshly cut white peach, floral apple blossom, lemon and lime peel fruits, with the subtle hints of mineral quartz and talc.
Palate: The palate is clean, fresh and vibrant with longer more stream-lined acid to balance the harmony between fruit flavour richness and a palate cleaning finish. The fruit is concentrated, complex and refreshing, offering a profile of minerals, white peach, apples, lemon and lime peel fruits, all tightly gathered together on the palate with the seamless fresh crisp acid and lingering tropical fruits.
Ageing potential: Drink now to 2012. Likely best years 2010 and 2011.
Food suggestions: This Chardonnay is made for your enjoyment, and yet versatile enough to match with an array of foods; Caesar salad; mussels with tomato and saffron sauce; grilled white fleshed fish, and other sea food dishes. Fettuccine carbonara and Mediterranean style dishes.
Product description provided by Ninth Island
| Vineyard | Ninth Island |
|---|---|
| Vineyard_Info | The vineyards are situated across the north coast of Tasmania, on the western banks of the scenic Tamar River slightly north of Launceston, as well as within the Pipers Brook and Pipers River regions. Climatically each vineyard site is different from the next. Its the subtle differences in climatic conditions between sites and between vines that becomes part of the complex answer to the production of cool climate wines of the highest quality aimed for.
Vineyard description courtesy of Kreglinger. |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Style | Dry |
| Alc % | 13.5 |
| Size | 750mL |
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