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Pinot Noir

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Light colour and weight

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OW Pinot Noir Appearance

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Dark Pink to translucent ruby-red to pale ruby/cherry

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NW Pinot Noir Appearance

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  • Ruby-red to violet.

* Denser but still translucent.

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OW Pinot Noir Aroma

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Pale berries, sour cherries, cranberry.Some earthiness, tea leaves, spice, mushrooms, wet forest floor.With age: barnyard, farmyard. Often firm and even lean.

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NW Pinot Noir Aroma

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Riper black cherries, rasberries, strawberries,Some sweetness from oak.Dusty, boiled sweets, raw meat. Vegetal.Usually more perfumed and aromatic than OW.

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OW Pinot Noir Palate

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Understated, delicate, silky texture, tangy and mouth-watering. Red berries. Spice.

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NW Pinot Noir Palate

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Acidity is less stringent than OW. Juicier, dark ripe summer berries.Light to medium bodied. Feminine.

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Shiraz/syrah

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Medium to full bodied

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OW Syrah Appearance

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Dark ruby-red.

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NW Syrah Appearance

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Dark garnet to opaque

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OW Syrah Aroma

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Leather, smoke, tobacco, spice, chocolate, white pepper, gamey.

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NW Syrah Aroma

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Black pepper, spice, smoke ripe fruit, vanilla, creamy sweetness. Oak, burnt rubber, earthy, leather, savoury, soy.

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OW Syrah Palate

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Powerful, plummy fruit flavours. Soft tannins. Savoury qualities.Leaner and meatier with age.

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NW Syrah Palate

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Medium to full bodied. Ripe red/black fruit. High alcohol.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

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Thick-skinned, high fruit tannin.Full bodied.Affinity with oak.

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OW Cabernet Sauvignon Appearance

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Pale garnet to mid-ruby

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NW Cabernet Sauvignon Appearance

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Mid-ruby to opaque

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OW Cabernet Sauvignon Aroma

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Blackcurrant, cassis, lead pencil, violets, tobacco, earthy. Wet leaves, tealeaves. Grassy, cigar box, cedar, tomato leaf.

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NW Cabernet Sauvignon Aroma

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Blackcurrant, mint/eucalyptus, juicy, jammy, lush, forward. Sweet, toasty, vanilla, vegetal, green pepper, cigar box, stewed plums.

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OW Cabernet Sauvignon Palate

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Restrained, delicate to quite full-bodied. Complex, firm tannins, well integrated fruit. Aftertaste of vanilla and earthiness.

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NW Cabernet Sauvignon Palate

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Full-bodied, more accesible, riper red fruit, plump, ample tannins, sweet oakiness. High alcohol.

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Merlot

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Thinner skin than CS. Medium to full-bodied.Deep colour.

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OW Merlot Appearance

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Dark ruby-red.

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NW Merlot Appearance

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Sometimes darker than Cabernet Sauvignon.Can be similair in colour to Cabernet Sauvignon.Purplish ruby-red.

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OW Merlot Aroma
Plums, dark berries, meaty, vanilla, roasted coffee beans, cocoa. Subtle, fruitcake, savoury, prunes.
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NW Merlot Aroma
Sweeter, riper red berries, chocolate. Some oakiness. sweet oakiness, vanilla or spice. some jamminess. Cherry-plum, coffee, blackberry, roses, occaisionally mint toffee.
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OW Merlot Palate
Softer tannins than Cabernet Sauvignon. Complex and subtle follow through.
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NW Merlot Palate
Juicy, rounded, accessible, ripe fruit. Smooth and soft, velvety, soft texture, medium bodied.
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Sauvignon Blanc
High acid, light-bodied, medium alcohol, usually unoaked.
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OW Sauvignon Blanc Appearance
Pale yellow-green to straw
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NW Sauvignon Blanc Appearance
Sometimes a little darker. Colourless in youth.
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OW Sauvignon Blanc Aroma
Sour apple, grassy, herbaceous.Loire: Flinty, gunsmoke, gooseberries, mineral
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NW Sauvignon Blanc Aroma
Fresh cut grass, hay, straw, green pepper, fig, honeydew melon, herbaceous.Cooler reguins: asparagus, gooseberries.
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OW Sauvignon Blanc Palate
Granny Smith apples, tart and tangy. Subtle earthiness.
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NW Sauvignon Blanc Palate
Citrus, melon, ripe and crisp fruits. Fresh green flavours.Alcohol is normally apparent.
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Chardonnay
Unwooded to heavilly wooded.Affinity with oak.medium acidHigh alcohol.
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OW Chardonnay Appearance
Pale yellow-green.Young Chablis is almost colourless (unless oaked)
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NW Chardonnay Appearance
Pale yellow-green to straw-gold.
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OW Chardonnay Aroma
Ripe pear, soft apple (golden delicious).Chablis and Pouilly-Fuissé; mineral, flinty, chalky.
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NW Chardonnay Aroma
Fruit salad, lemon, citrus, orange, tangerine, peach, melon, pineapple,buttery, oily.If wooded; smokey, vanilla.
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OW Chardonnay Palate
As the nose.Delicate, soft, refreshing, complex, subtle, lthe, elegant.Burgundy; Richer and fuller-bodied.
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NW Chardonnay Palate
Follows through from the nose.Juicy, fruity, more alcohol than OW which shows as weight. . Touch of sweetness from the alcohol. Charred wood.
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Chenin Blanc
OW - Unwooded.NW - Both unwooded and wooded
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OW Chenin Blanc Appearance
Pale yellow-green to straw.
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NW Chenin Blanc Appearance
Watery-pale to straw (with age and/or wood)
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OW Chenin Blanc Aroma
Honey and flowers, almonds, quince, damp straw, (almost oxidative). Gummy when older.
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NW Chenin Blanc Aroma
Apple, floral, guava, grassy, tropical fruit, vanilla with wood.
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OW Chenin Blanc Palate
High acid.Honeyed, peachy.Ripeness on mid-palate.Complexity increases with age.
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NW Chenin Blanc Palate
Softer acidity and riper fruit
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Riesling
Light bodied, no affinity with oak. low alcohol.
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OW Riesling Appearance
Pale yellow-green. Brilliant.
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NW Riesling Appearance
Yellow-green. A little darker.
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OW Riesling Aroma
Subtle lemon, lime, earthiness, spicy, floral, buttered toast, tar.With age oily, peach.
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NW Riesling Aroma
More exotic, peach, apricot, citrus, mandarin, lime, some earthiness.Develops bitumen and honey with age.Mineral, blossoms, floral.
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OW Riesling Palate
Lemonny fruit, prominent acidity, subtle.Alsace: bone dry.German: Slight sweetness.Develops weight with age.Oily on mid-palate.
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NW Riesling Palate
Vivid fruit which follows through. Juicy fruit salad. Usually off-dry to sweet in style.
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Semillon
Wooded and Unwooded
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OW Semillon Appearance
Green tinge to straw if sweet
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NW Semillon Appearance
Pale straw. (usually wooded).
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OW Semillon Aroma
Waxy, lanolin, floral, spicy.
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NW Semillon Aroma
Limes, citrus, lanolin.Vanilla with oak.
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OW Semillon Palate
Follows through. More body than Sauvignon Blanc..Similair to Chardonnay.Medium acid.
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NW Semillon Palate
Follows through.Often wooded.

Varietal characteristics (12 decks)

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