Gippsland, Victoria. The very cool season produced fruit of high acidity, good flavours but medium colour density. The wine shows generous black cherry and red bramble fruits with spicy overtones of new French oak.
A portion of this wine has been matured in new French oak barriques in order to maximise concentration and complexity. It is an intensely flavoured and complex wine with a lovely silky texture and excellent acidity. It is an ideal accompaniment to game meats and will develop further over the next five years.
Narkoojee,
meaning "place of flowers”, was a dairy farm owned and operated by Edna
and Athelstan Friend, since the early 1940s. Their son Harry planted
the first experimental vines back in 1980 and with his wife Val, moved
to the property from Melbourne in 1995. Narkoojee had very humble
beginnings with the Cellar Door operating out of a small weatherboard
bungalow at the back of Harry and Val Friend’s house. The grapes were
taken to the old butter factory in Glengarry, which served as their
first winery. Today Narkoojee has a state-of-the-art winery that was
officially opened on 10 December 2004.
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