Rising Bad Earth Aromatic Dry White 750 ml

A white blend from Nillumbik's Bad Earth. It's aromatic, it's dry...it's white? Got it? Try it, you'll like it. There’s a minerality here, but a certain seductiveness to its perfume too, like freshly sprinkled bath salts with dried rose petals, lavender, peppermint and candied musk. The palate is like a martini - albeit a sultry one - wet rock, olive brine with citrusy drive, maybe a touch of tart? It’s not all linear; there’s breadth with a hazelnut like mealiness. It’s loooonnnnng. The Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer, along with a melange of smaller parcels, were picked and vinified separately. Both were whole bunch pressed to old barrels for indigenous fermentation. Sulphured post sugar fermentation, then left on lees for eight months to build texture. The parcels were blended just before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.