Quealy
Quealy wines are an adventurous exploration of the most premium, delicious wines on the Mornington Peninsula. They are new styles of wine, employing winemaking and viticulture techniques developed by Kathleen Quealy after her many years of successful winemaking.
Balnarring Vineyard was purchased by the Quealy-McCarthy family in 2004. The vineyard has some of the oldest premium pinot noir on the Mornington Peninsula, and the vines are exclusively used for Quealy Seventeen Rows Pinot Noir. The vineyard also grows the POBBLEBONK blend; Pinot Grigio, Friulano, Chardonnay, Riesling & Muscat Giallo.
Kathleen Quealy started her brand in 2006, with POBBLEBONK & RAGEOUS.
She began her winemaking training at Wagga Wagga and was both mentored and inspired by her viticulture teacher Dr Max Loder. His love of viticulture was supported by a European philosophy, with the ironic appreciation that in Australia winemakers were dismissive of viticulture, and rather enamoured by new fangled machinery. Her trajectory was including a viticultural understanding into her winemaking.
Quealy’s philosophy is her activities have to be real. She understands that they are her grapes, made at her winery by her decisions, and that is how she believes you discover how to make a great wine.
Quealy also believes that innovation begins with confinement to one region, after that it is a chess game, how do you extract the most quality out of your region? She believes it is with style and that you have to think outside of the square to achieve results. Quealy also thinks that blending is a significant contributor to quality in winemaking. Blending across varieties can enhance the qualities of all the varieties involved – hence the birth of POBBLEBONK and RAGEOUS.
Tasting Notes
Pale straw in colour, the aroma is full of enticing characters of wildflower and pear. The palate is fine and delicate with an added nutty textural dimension and notes of herbs and citrus. The beautifully balanced acidity heightens the flavours and gives it a long clean finish.
Senza Nome - Italian for nameless and our nickname for an Italian variety – once described as Tocai Friulano & now only as Friulano, which has recently become exclusive to the Friuli region. The French call this variety Sauvignonasse. Friulano is grown at Balnarring Vineyard by Kathleen Quealy and her husband Kevin McCarthy, with the inspiration coming from the great varietal examples and the brilliant super whites from Friuli which is so close to the Adriatic Sea, which Kathleen feels has a similar climate to the Mornington Peninsula. In the vineyard Kathleen describes it as primitive Sauvignon Blanc, with grape bunches smaller and looser, the canopy less vigorous and the flavour of the grapes much more fragrant rather than pungent. The exciting discovery of 100 vines carefully tended within a larger Mildura vineyard, inspired Kathleen to obtain the cuttings and graft them onto some vines on Balnarring Vineyard.
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