Australia - New South Wales - Hunter Valley Zone
3 important questions on Australia - New South Wales - Hunter Valley Zone
Hunter Valley Zone is famous for?
- Oldest Region: Hunter
- 200km north of Sydney: tourists
- Unique Semillon
Describe the climate and growing environment of Hunter Valley.
- Within New South Wales
- Sub-tropical climate: humid, rain
- latitude 32-33S - almost tropical
- One of the hotter most humid wine producing regions of Australia
- High summer temperatures, cool nights
- Intense sunshine
- Lower Hunter cost to the coast (cooling influences)
- Upper Hunter warmer
- Hills at low altitudes
- Soils: sandy, clay loams
- Irrigation not needed
- No protection from Great Dividing Range
- First region to start harvesting in Australia
What are the grape varieties of Hunter Valley. What makes one of the white varieties so special?
- Equally white and black
- Chardonnay, high quality Shiraz
- Famous Semillon
- dry, light bodied
- high acidity
- low in %abv (10-11)
- Neutral, delicate citrus
- Can age for decades
- released at at least 5 year old: toast, honey, hay.
- No skin contact, gentle pressing
- No oak, short on steel. Bottle ageing.
- producers: Tyrrell's, Mount Pleasant
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