Verdelho is an autumnal wine (besides, the two words are, for me, onomatopoeic).
I know: we are now into the first month of winter! Drinking Verdelho is like
drinking autumnal leaves: changing colour to flutter/fall. Traditionally, the
Verdelho grape makes a textured wine of depth, something like a wooded
Chardonnay.
When I talk about locabiber/local drinker, I should refer to the Northern
Rivers Zone which has one region, the Hastings River, Port Macquarie. That's
about 448 kms from Northern Rivers. But there are two other wine zones nearby.
The Northern Slopes zone also has only one region, New England, 285 kms from
us. Finally, there is the Granite Belt and South Burnett regions in the
Queensland zone, 222 kms and 459 kms respectively from us. So I could say that
when I drank a glass of Morgan and Gill's Verdelho in the Brisbane Playhouse
recently, I was drinking locally. The two winemakers use grapes from South
Burnett. They say on their website that this region 'has produced consistently
excellent Verdelho'. And this one is excellent in its smooth, gold colour and apple, pear and ginger perfume and deep palate.
Because I loved that Morgan and Gill Verdelho, I ordered two online for
Christmas 2018, and discovered that the one I drank is the 2017. It is
excellent in its mellifluousness. The 2018
is not as good, or not yet. There is pineapple/citrus in the perfume, but it is
more tart in the palate, thinner and not as luscious.
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