Monday, February 24, 2025

Stargazer/Tupelo Tasmania Coal River Valley 2024 Pinot Gris/Riesling/Gewuztraminer/Pinot Blanc

 Ok, so Tasmania appears to be doing, unbeknown to moi, the combo grape variety wine, when I thought Tasmanian was all about predictable varieties such as Chardonnay, Riesling, Sav Blanc and Pinto Noir. But, no, it does Gewurz, Pinot Blanc, Gamay and, wait for it, Chenin Blanc. See my post below that notes a not-dissimilar mix: Atom 2022 Entropic White: Gewuztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Gris.

This bottle invests in a quirky print maker, Kate Piekutowski, whom I've come across on Instagram. 



So it's light gold in colour. It has a perfume of pear  and jube (possibly red). On the palate, it is surprisingly full-ish and actually not sweet (on a second tasting with a day or so in between), thank the goddesses. A little too sharp on the end palate for such a mix. But wait, maybe waiting even more, the end palate is between savoury and sweet and seems finely balanced. 

The branding IS CONFUSING (yes, all caps deliberate) because I looked up Tupelo and could not find a devoted website under that name, which turns out to be Stargazer, which you have to look for on the back label of the bottle.  I am sure it has an explanation - but wait, there is another mixed variety wine with a different subtitle/name - but I was too tired to look for such. 

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Atom 2022 Entropic White: Gewuztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Gris

 This Atom wine is a lovely, pale-golden yellow in colour. Salty in perfume. Long palate, that is high syrupy in the middle and  rich and lemony at the end. Savoury with a hint of sweetness. Atom wines are based in the south of Tasmania, at Lindisfarne is a suburb of the capital of Tasmania Hobart's Eastern Shore,