At 4.2 g/l residual sugar, I think this wine is technically off-dry. It is made from bought grapes by a small, family-run producer in the Southern Flinders Ranges, North of the Clare Valley.
I'm struggling to get a lot from the nose here. There's a lick of minerality and some soft, powdery citrus fruit, perhaps some talcum powder-like perfume. Clean and pleasant, but with no thrust or power.
This theme continues on the palate, with a delicate, shy mix of sherbet-like flavour and rounder fruit notes. Entry is refreshing and crisp thanks to acidity that is prominent if not especially refined. This structure carries the wine briskly to a middle palate that never quite reaches any sort of climax. Instead, fruit flavour seems to drift lazily across the tongue, at times propped up by valiant acidity but never coming into focus. I wonder if this aspect, which is frustrating to me, might please wine drinkers who aren't fond of the rapier-like styles that get my blood pumping. Perhaps. In any case, this finishes as it starts, with a soft, almost hazy drift of fruit flavour.
One to throw back without too much thought.
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