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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2034 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Michael Mackenzie on 8/9/2023 & rated 91 points: Retasted and confirms my note of 2nd May 2023.
Up against a Pewsey Vale Estate Riesling 2021.
No contest, the latter being dumb, light and of little interest.
Being charitable, the latter is a light Nahe versus an opulent Pfalz. (498 views) | | | Tasted by Michael Mackenzie on 5/2/2023 & rated 91 points: Colour: light gold, green tinge, bright, clear.
Nose: full, fresh, leads with crisp lime and perhaps a touch of pomelo, persistent with typical Clare Valley notes.
Taste: light body, rounded, crisp acidity with lime dominant, med finish, v dry, lime.
Overall, a good example of this wine with good vibrancy and character. Still youthful. (603 views) | | | Tasted by Le Huray Cellar on 6/18/2022 & rated 90 points: Exceptional. Drinking beautifully. Great dryness and beautifully balanced fruit (878 views) | | | Tasted by Screwcaps on 5/12/2021 & rated 93 points: 2020 Hanlin Hill, Petaluma.
From a new batch.
Green apple, tending to red. Razor acidity really cleans up the wine where lime, lemon and a touch of that mandarin I saw in the other bottles.
This has crunchy, crackly, acidity and no hint of browning apple or brown lime cordial seen consistently in other case of wine.
Starts quite broad as is the style, but finishes tight and clean and long with a salty talc and lemon drops and rind intensity that was not there in the other batch.
This bottle is sooooo much better. Vital and persistent and complex. Most of all it’s enjoyable and true to type.
93, with some upside potential here. Drink now or wait 5 years for the awkward Riesling adolescence to pass and look again.
Suspect that the previous box saw some heat in transit. It doesn’t explain the soapy notes I got entirely. Very kind of the supplier to provide a replacement for benchmarking, glad to see a vendor back their product. (1521 views) | | | Tasted by Screwcaps on 4/26/2021 flawed bottle: I wonder if this is flawed. Another drab, dilute, and flat bottle. Brown lime cordial, cottled and bruised red apple, with a hint of mandarin like soft acidity through the finish as it quickly disappears. I hope I’ve got a faulty case, or this spells very bad news for this key cuvee.
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The more I try to find redeeming features in this wine the more I see the creamy, cheesy and yeasty notes. There’s aromas and flavours of soap. There’s something wrong here... and I’ve had it to lesser or greater degrees across the case. Glad to be my last botttle. (1312 views) | | | Tasted by Screwcaps on 4/17/2021 & rated 89 points: Another flat and lifeless bottle from this case. Broad, bland, and lacks line. From such a good vintage I’d love to know what has happened here to not reach higher expectations. Simple and lacks character. No faults, just incredibly flat and drab. This label used to be my go to along with Grosset. Sad to see such an important proponent of the style miss like this. Huon Hooke gave this quite a high score. Maybe he was given a special bottle because the ones I’ve had are bronze at a stretch.89 is for technical score, I’ve had much more enjoyment in wines half the price from Clare. (1058 views) | | | Tasted by Screwcaps on 2/25/2021 & rated 89 points: 2020 Petaluma Riesling, Hanlin Hill
Granted, was not served cold enough, a byo where I couldn’t get the cold transport right.
This feels a little dull. It’s medium bodied, fine and balanced but it lacks line and length.
Riper fruit of red apple, bickfords brown lime cordial, some talc for grip. Citrus is on the softer side- say mandarin.
I expected much more persistence from the maker and the vintage too.
I’ll drink the next bottle colder, with fingers crossed, in the next 12 months.
89 today. (1051 views) | | | Tasted by Bearbus on 1/10/2021: Nice lime blossom, good intensity of lime and lemon, crisp, nectar, blanched almond, some phenolics, decent length. Very nice. Get more (805 views) |
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The Accolade Wines-owned Petaluma winery at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills is closing and will be put on the market.
Production will be shifted to the company’s Tintara winery in McLaren Vale.
The Petaluma facility, which only opened five years ago, has produced the Petaluma and Croser brands.
The company’s Krondorf winery in the Barossa Valley will also shut with production shifted to the Tintara and St Hallett wineries.
“We recently conducted a thorough assessment of our wine footprint to understand the capacity to support the growth of our wine brands and to ensure that each site can run sustainably,” Accolade Wines chief executive Robert Foye says.
“In response to the increasing global demand for Petaluma and Croser, these brands have reached capacity at Woodside Estate and outgrown the site.
“Therefore, we have made the decision to sell this facility and transfer all winemaking of the Petaluma and Croser portfolio to the spiritual home of Accolade Wines and our state-of-the-art facility at Tintara.
“With a long history of Adelaide Hills winemaking, Tintara has a phenomenal barrel cellar, amazing winemakers and a sizeable site that can accommodate all fruit from the Petaluma and Croser vineyards and family of grower vineyards.
“It will enable us to produce even more quality Petaluma wine that people have come to know and love.”
Accolade is investigating new locations for the Petaluma cellar door.
“In the meantime, we will keep trading in the current location until the sale is completed,” Mr Foye says.
“We will retain our Adelaide Hills vineyards in Summertown and Mount Barker.”
Mr Foye says they do not have enough white winegrapes that require processing in the Barossa to maximise the capability and size of the Krondorf winery.
“Therefore, we are selling this facility so that a potential buyer can more efficiently leverage the strong white wine making capabilities of this winery,” he says.
“Our Grant Burge white winegrapes will be processed at our Tintara and St Hallett wineries in vintage 2021 onwards.
“While we have made the decision to sell these sites, Petaluma, Croser and Grant Burge remain an important part of brand portfolio and we have decided to produce them elsewhere to support their ongoing and planned growth.
“All employees who are potentially impacted by these changes have been informed and we will continue to support them throughout this transition.
“We hope that the majority of our employees can be retained by us at one of our Accolade Wines sites or by the new owners.
“I would like to reiterate our commitment to South Australia and our footprint across five wineries, six cellar doors, two state of the art facilities and 584 employees. We will continue to invest in the region and have plans in place regarding the opportunities we see in South Australia in the future.”
The Petaluma facility opened by then-owner Lion in 2015 and cost $10 million.
Accolade Wines is owned by the American private equity company The Carlyle Group.
Petaluma Winery goes for $5m as boutique vineyards sell. Larry Schlesinger Reporter Nov 7, 2021 AFR
Accolade Wines has sold its Petaluma Winery in the Adelaide Hills to McLaren Vale-based bottling company Torresan Estate for almost $5 million, joining a rising number of sales among boutique vineyards.
Accolade, owned by US private equity firm The Carlyle Group, put Petaluma and its historic Krondorf winery and cellar door in the Barossa Valley up for sale in January. The company decided to shift the production of wines, including premium brands like Grant Burge and Rolf Binder, to its Hardys Tintara winery in McLaren Vale and its St Hallett facility at Tanunda in the Barossa.
Built in 2015 and set on 33 hectares at 254 Pfeiffer Road in Woodside, Petaluma is the largest winery in the Adelaide Hills with a 2000 tonne vintage capacity. Records show it was bought by Toressan Estate for $4.8 million.
The wine business, run by the grandchildren of winemakers Gino and Flora Torresan, has steadily expanded its McLaren Vale bottling facility. It added a third warehouse in 2019 after growing its customer base to more than 250 local winemakers.
Toressan Estate will continue to bottle and mature Accolade’s Croser and House of Arras brands at the Petaluma winery, while increasing its capacity to bottle wines for other customers.
“We see a real future for the Woodside site in contract packaging of sparkling wines,” said Torresan family spokesman, Andrew Torresan.
Accolade Wines CEO Robert Foye said the winemaker would operate the Petaluma cellar door from its current location with Torresan Estate.
”We will retain our Adelaide Hills vineyards in Summertown and Mount Barker,” he said.
The sale of the Petaluma Winery was brokered by Langley & Co, headed by managing director Toby Langley.
Langley & Co is also selling the Krondorf Winery, which is listed as “under offer”.
Alongside the two Accolade offerings, Langley & Co has sold four boutique vineyards in South Australia, Victoria and WA in the past few months – all to local buyers.
While Mr Langley said these sales were a culmination of months of hard work rather than a rush to buy, lockdowns and China tariffs had not massively subdued the market for vineyards or affected valuations in any major way.
“The reality is that good vineyards that are well managed will inevitably attract buyers with a mid to long-term vision,” he said.2020 Petaluma Riesling Hanlin HillWINEMAKING NOTES
Hand-picked up in the Clare Valley during the day, and placed into the cold room overnight the whole bunch pressed the following morning at the Petaluma Winery in the Adelaide Hills. Pressed to stainless steel tanks for cold settling; racked off lees to stainless steel tank for cool fermentation; matured in stainless steel tanks before being blended then gently filtered and bottled.
NOSE
A delicate and fragrant wine full of citrus blossom and lifted notes of spice.
PALATE
Bright and lifted with concentrated lime and guava on the palate with a subtle hint of bath salts. A lightly weighted wine with a lovely crisp, dry acidity that imparts a backbone to the wine for which it is renowned. A wine to enjoy now in its youth, but as with all Petaluma Rieslings, it will be worth the wait to watch it develop in bottle for many years to come.Petaluma Riesling Hanlin HillPetaluma has had several owners since Brian Croser established it in 1979. It’s now part of the Accolade group, but the riesling has always come from the same vineyard in the north of the Clare Valley.
The Hanlin Hill vineyard was planted in 1968 and is on a west-facing slope on the eastern edge of the Clare Valley where the vines up to 550 metres above sea level. This vineyard produces grapes that make very full-flavoured, dry, slatey, minerally Rieslings. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel with Petaluma's own yeast strains, first isolated by founder Brian Croser during the early 1980s.
The wine is allowed to cold settle for a month before filtration and bottling. Shows bright floral aromas, citrus peel and orange blossom with a hint of tropical fruit; the palate is lively with a rich lime marmalade character.
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