Two Hands Love Or Money 2005

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Winery:

Two Hands Wines

Varietal:

Sémillon

Region:

Australia > South Australia > Barossa

Type:

Dessert/Fortified

Color:

Red

Drink Dates:

Drink Now - 2017

UPC:

 

User Tags:  powerful, seductive, dessert wines, caramel, tropical fruit, herbaceous, honey, character, honeysuckle, rich 

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What to Expect

Sémillon is one of the grapes traditionally used to produce both dry and sweet white wines in Bordeaux. When bottled on its own the wine produced is rich and full with deep flavors of melon, fig, pineapple and apricot featuring gentle, earthy, spice tones and a subtle vegetal undercurrent.

Winemakers Notes

Tasting Notes
A powerful and seductive dessert wine.
Bright golden colour with intense aromas of honeysuckle and tropical fruits. The palate is luscious and concentrated with hints of honey and spice and a complex array of dried tropical fruit flavours. The finish is clean, fresh and persistent. The perfect accompaniment to a slice of the infamous Roquefort cheese.

Winemaking
Made from cane cut Semillon grapes. Following the hand pruning of 50% of the canes at the point the fruit achieves ripeness the fruit is left to hang for further 4 to 8 weeks. The fruit was then read more...hand picked on four separate occasions, between the end of March through to May, the sugar level varying between 22 and 29 baume. Fermented in new French oak hogsheads where it spent a further 4 months maturing.


VINTAGE COMMENTS

After steady winter and early spring rains, the vineyard soils in the Barossa Valley were full of moisture. Combined with the generally mild weather through the early months of the growing season, the vines had a good start and subsequently good canopies developed and flowering and set were very successful.

The showers through the first half of November and the beginning of December maintained good levels of soil moisture and the health of the vines, but thankfully did not pose any disease threats.

The high level of soil moisture did lead to one concern, which was the fact that the berries sized up a lot earlier than normal due to extensive cell division pre veraison. By the end of January the average berry size, seen across the Valley, was similar to that seen at full maturity; thankfully the berries did not increase in size much more until harvest. The Barossa only received about 15 mm of rain from the beginning of February to the beginning of June, creating a wonderful Indian summer and ripening season, with very low disease threat. The final berry size could be described as slightly larger than average.

At the time of harvest in Barossa, the fruit had intense colour and flavour, indicating that the slightly larger than average sized berries had not caused any dilution. This was probably due to the fact that the berries sized up early and the fruit had the bulk of the season to balance out. The only noticeable net result of the slightly increased berry size was that yields were slightly higher than first anticipated.    (hide)

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