McWilliam's Hanwood Estate Medium Dry Apera NV

McWilliam’s Hanwood Estate Medium Dry Apera NV Varietals: Palomino, Semillon Overview: A classic medium dry Apera, matured in oak for 5 years featuring a complex and developed bouquet with a full mellow palate and a nutty dry finish. Serve chilled as an aperitif prior to a meal. Colour: Deep amber , copper in hue. Nose: Lifted , vibrant rancio and pistachio nut flavours with a hint of citrus and ripe apple. Palate: Clean and mellow , this wine is very dry with rancio , nutty and malt flavours integrated with aged oak characters. The alcohol form the fortification helps to make the finish is long and quite dry and will serve as an aperitif to many dinner parties. Vinification and Maturation: McWilliams dry Apera is made using the flor solera system. Wines are secondarily fermented under ‘flor’ yeast which is a yeast which grows on the top of the Apera base. This produces aldehydes and in turn a nutty and lifted flavour in the wine. Medium dry Apera's are dry in style and these wines are flor apera which have been in oak for approximately 8-12 years in time. The wine is allowed to age and over time creates a nutty aldehydic flavour in the wine as it concentrates the flavours from the flor growth in it’s initial year of production. Wine Analysis: Alc: 18.5 pH: 3.61

TA: 5.73

Peak Drinking: Should be consumed now but can be held in bottle if carefully cellared for up to 5 years. Winemaker: Jim Brayne