Place of Changing Winds Harcourt Marsanne 2021 (1500ml)

Quite different from previous releases, being deeper, fleshier, more complex and textural. Marvelously aromatic, a fiery opal of colour and flavour. Pineapple, grilled nuts, lime, mandarin blossom, lees-ey, smokey, mango, pawpaw, guava and apricot. Rich and savoury, spicy and long, flavours flirting and flitting with time in the glass. Just wonderful. Waters Wine Co

 

This year the Marsanne comes from the same vineyard as the Harcourt Syrah. There is also a fair dollop of Roussanne in the blend, from the same site. Following previous practice with this wine, the grapes were picked fully ripe, pressed hard and sent straight to barrel (500 and 228-litre) for fermentation and aging. Primary fermentation and malolactic were left to happen naturally. After 12 months in cask, the wine was racked to tank for an additional 10 months, before the wine was bottled at the start of February 2023.

 

94 Points – Mike Bennie, The Winefront

 

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