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16¾/20
BK Wines Skin n' Bones White 2016
Lenswood, Adelaide Hills, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaHighly perfumed, shining golden yellow hued, with bruised apricot, orange blossom, pear skin leading the streaming, delicate and savoury form. The fading musk twinkles with lemon/lime sherbet before a bright, salted, white grapefruit twist on the lingering finish. It's all wabi-sabi, on the edge riding floral/fresh, and decay, all still intriguingly leading you to glass after glass (especially at 11.8 percent). Savagnin was brought into Oz from Spain and planted as Albarino. When folks discovered the cuttings they brought over were not actually albarino, but Jura's legendary savagnin (mistakenly planted in Spain as albarino), most vintners ripped it up. Brendon Keys, a fan of savagnin and Jura, is one of the few who chose to continue with savagnin, and is one of the few to work with the grape in Australia today. This is an 'orange wine', destemmed and fermented like a red with one month on skins in fermenter before being pressed off to barrel for nine months. In the mix is one new barrel from a forest in Jura, completing the circumference of this grape's journey from Jura to Spain to Oz back to Jura.Tasted: 09 November 2017Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| BC | $35.00 | 750ml | private wine shops |
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Grape: SavagninUPC: 9345864000621
