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Only 150 dozen half bottles of this wine was produced. Aged in French oak for 6 months, this rich, full-bodied wine displays intense apricot and marmalade flavours.
Constable Estate Vineyards produces less than 3000 cases per year using all the fruit off the vineyard.
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Aromas of orange marmalade, cumquat, vanilla, cinnamon and some flowery honeyed notes. Fresh, light and spicy. On the palate suitably luscious and glossy, but with a good sense of freshness, it offers flavours of tangerine, apricot and spicy vanilla oak. It has an appropriate cut of acid and a little bit of oak tannin adding grip and texture. Finishes clean with a lick of spicy oak and excellent length of flavour. A delightful sticky.
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The elegance and finesse of these wines is frequently used in cooking for the preparation of some recipes, in particular for pastry cooking, where their “magic touch” is always noticed and appreciated. Among the most common matching, as well as foregone, where sweet and botrytised wines are being used, there are cakes and confectionery, a sure and adequate matching, sweet wines and sweet foods are excellent companions. Moreover these wines can be happily matched to salty and very tasty foods, such as cheese, in particular hard and piquant cheese.
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The 2006 harvest in the Hunter Valley was a clean, hot summer, thus producing concentrated clean fruit for excellent quality wine making.
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- "I wonder what made this such an exceptional wine? The vintage, the vineyard, the winemaking - of course, all of those, but I wonder if there is any particular aspect you can put your finger(s) on? The winemaker is certainly to be congratulated for a beuatifully made wine." -- Michael Schuster, London 16th July 2007
- "An outstanding Australian sweet wine with great purity and definition." -- Gary Walsh (Winorama)
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