Cellar List

Pinot Grigio is the Italian name for the French variety Pinot Gris. The Italian tendency to pick the grapes earlier produces a racy, savoury style. The French wait for riper flavours and the palates are fuller and fatter. T'Gallant is Australia's leader in this cool climate grape variety.

 

Juliet Pinot Grigio 2007

T'Gallant's expertise in crafting Pinot Grigio, developed during the years of working with the variety, has perfectly placed the winemakers to create Juliet, Australia's first good-value, yet high quality, cool climate Pinot Grigio. Juliet has scents of honey, pear and salt air. You can taste the ripe fruit. Juliet has a decadently full palate, savoury notes, soft acid, and a long deliciously ripe finish.

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Pinot Grigio 2005

Harvested from five vineyards located on the peninsula's coastal plain, all with shallow pale clay or sand soils. These parcels are blended with the wine made from T'Gallant's “Car Park” block. This parcel of wine is like pure pear juice. Australia’s benchmark Pinot Grigio – fresh, flinty, oyster shell, delicate gooseberry...lovely length with a dollop of pear.
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Imogen Pinot Gris 2005

Imogen is a lovely mouth filling wine. Very soft and delicious – very rustica – smells like honey and pears, pale gold colour. Drink now.
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Tribute Pinot Gris 2004

A lake of effusive flavour for this new Alsatian style vintage...creamy pears, almonds, green olives and a flush of mushrooms finishing long and sweetly spicy.
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Cool climate white varietals

Chardonnay 2004

The key to this style is blending across many vineyards to achieve breadth of flavour, and then aging the wine in 3000L Ovals. The end result is a wine brimming with flavour, with that delicious cool climate zingy acid driving the middle palate to a long finish. T'Gallant Chardonnay is in a class of its own to drink now or age for five years.
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Lot 2 Chardonnay 2006

The 2006 T'Gallant Lot 2 Chardonnay is light straw in colour with a complex nose showing pure, lifted and dynamic fruit flavours. The lees complexity adds greatly to the bouquet with struck match and flint notes leading to beautiful nutty notes of cashew and hazelnut. The palate shows an exceptional acid backbone which supports the classic Peninsula Chardonnay length of flavour. The fruit from the Brickenden Vineyard shows subtlety and restraint of flavour which makes for a stylish and intriguing wine that is the perfect foil to fine foods.

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Viognier 2004

This 1-hectare enclave of sun and warmth and shelter in the Earl's Ridge vineyard, has proven to be the Peninsula’s premium Viognier vineyard. These grapes attain great power and alcohol, due to the meticulous selection of shoots and grape bunches throughout the season. The wine undergoes a wild fermentation and then malolactic fermentation, resting in barrels for 8 months before bottling. This wine has charming apricot and honey aromas. The palate is rich and full, moving with exotic spices, making it an impressive drinking experience.
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Pinot Noir can be exceptional when grown on the Mornington Peninsula. Site selection must be north facing and warm. Winemakers are very fussy about clone, crop levels and canopy management. T'Gallant vineyard management and winemakers work in harmony to achieve the optimum fruit quality.

Juliet Pinot Noir 2005

Delicate Pinot perfume, like a mixture of raspberry and.face powder. A silky languid mouth feel. Lovely ripe plummy fruit flavours. This Peninsula Pinot offers great value.
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Pinot Noir 2004

The ultimate Pinot Noir year, the best…Kevin McCarthy claims that there have been three great Peninsula Pinot years – ’97, ’00 and ’04 and ’04 is the very best. All about exquisite flavour nuances, length, structure. Large crop loads were trimmed early to 3 tons per acre, cold maceration, extended vatting time and wild yeast fermentation. The wine drinks beautifully now – open, perfumed and voluptuous with spice and black fruit. Cellar for 5 years.
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Tribute Pinot Noir 2006

The bouquet of the 2006 T'Gallant Tribute Pinot Noir trully sings the Pinot Noir song, with the aromas going straight to the Pinot Noir centre of the brain. The perfume is exquisite, reflecting the perfect conditions of the vintage, leading to a palate with a real tannin structure and great length.

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Red wine from warmer Victoria

Beechworth Sangiovese 2004

Ink black fruit intensity, a big wine with black cherry and coffee flavours, and has an impressive, fine tannin structure. Beechworth provides the essential sun exposure and cool mountain temperatures so necessary in creating flavour whilst building grape tannin structure.
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Glenrowan Shiraz 2001

Originally planted in 1904, these 100 year old shiraz vine roots have penetrated through decomposed red granite soil searching for nutrients and water. Blended with younger vine shiraz (30%) to refresh the palate. Effusive with plummy, brambly flavours, liquorice spice notes. A deep rich palate bursting with vanilla and plum characteristics, a great wine to drink now or cellar for up to 10 years.
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Something sweet

 

Juliet Moscato 2007

The 2007 T'Gallant Juliet Moscato is pale straw in colour with a beautiful effervescence. The nose displays intense lifted floral and fresh fruit aromatics leading to fine fresh fruit flavours on the front palate. A crisp, lemon zesty acidity balances this luscious wine and supports the weight of flavour through the fine, crisp finish.

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Moscato 2007

With lifted aromas of blossom, musk and spice, the frizzante style palate echoes these sensations, creating a refreshing, fruity wine experience. Moscato is the Italian word for Muscat and is a light, sightly sparkling wine known for its fresh fruit flavours. These fresh flavours are directly attributable to the winemaking process and are an essential element of the wine.

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