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We have a wide range of wines at Canobolas-Smith. Here is an overview of the major styles. If you are after something more specific, please drop Justin or Murray an email or call 02 6365 6113.
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Estate Blue Label
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Chardonnay
Current release of this wine is the 2006 Chardonnay. The 2006 Chardonnay comes from a mild growing season. It is a wine with plenty of fruit weight and flavour. In typical Canobolas-Smith style it spent twelve months in French oak barriques (one third new). This barrel fermentation gives the wine complexity and style. The wine has a fine yet intense palate with a long finish. This wine is still developing and it will become more complex as it ages over the next few years.
2005 Wild Yeast Chardonnay
This is an excellent, rich round
stylish Chardonnay, showing all
the textural attributes of the ‘wild
style’. Twelve months in older
French oak barrels ‘sur lie’
provides the platform from which
this delicious wine leaps. Peach
fruit characters lead to a smooth,
fruit-driven palate that has length
and style. Typical cool climate
acidity maintains the appeal.
Drink now –
2011+. Limited stocks.
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Tasting notes for our main wine styles
Chardonnay
Winemaking: Our premium Chardonnay grapes are hand-picked and chilled before whole bunch pressing. The wine is barrel fermented and aged "sur lie" with batonnage in new, one and two year French barriques with some malolactic fermentation. The barrels are blended after twelve months and held in tank until bottling.
Alchemy
Winemaking: This wine is a blend of our finest individual barrels.
Cabernet Sauvignon provides the backbone of the wine with rich berry flavours and firm tannin structure. Cabernet Franc contributes a lifted nose of raspberries and cassis and Shiraz adds significant spice and complexity.
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Estate Blue Label
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Pinot Noir
Next Release 2008. A small production wine we hold small stocks of Pinot Noir for mail order customers. We have small amounts of 2005 and 2006; please call the Winery for price and avaialability details.
Shiraz
Current Release 2006. This wine has a very appealing deep
red colour with youthful hints of
purple. The nose has a delicious
amalgam of red fruits and spice. The
fruit characters are in the raspberry
and blood plum spectrum. The palate
is medium bodied with lovely weight
and elegance. The palate continues the
raspberry theme with eighteen months
in oak giving the wine added richness
and structure. Drink now – 2015+.
Alchemy
Current Release 2006. The 2006 Alchemy blend is 60%
Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet
Sauvignon and 5% Shiraz. Deep
mid-red in colour with ruby tones,
the raspberry, blood plum Franc
character dominates the nose and
palate of this wine. Being a
majority Cabernet Franc is quite a
departure and it is most like the
1995 Alchemy which is still
drinking well. The other departure
was extended barrel aging – the
wine spent 36 months in barrel
with approximately 30% new
barrels, all French. Three years
maturation results in supple,
enveloping tannins that provide
structure without aggression.
These supple tannins, which are
fine and almost powdery,
combined with the lifted sweet
fruit character have given us an
Alchemy which is more
approachable than the still quite
tight 2005. This is a young, cellar
worthy and quite complete
Alchemy where the three
components Cabernet Franc,
Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz
form a seamless whole. Drink to
2016+.
2005 Lidster Pinot Noir
A wine at the dark cherry, plum end of the Pinot Noir spectrum. From a neighbouring vineyard at 900m, it is powerful and, at five years of age, only just beginning to soften. Ideal for partnering with many red meats and game dishes.
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2003 Cabernets
The blend is 90% Cabernet
Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet
Franc. The Franc adds a lovely
sweet fruit note to this smooth yet
intense product of a very dry year.
The fruit character of the wine is in
the dark fruit spectrum with hints
of savoury olive tapenade adding
complexity to a wine that is
coming into its drinking window.
This wine drinks well now but will
continue to improve in the bottle
for several years. For those of you
who enjoyed the 2002 Cabernets
the 2003 is rounder, fuller and
fleshier - a perfect partner for
winter braises.
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Strawhouse Label
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2003 El Nino Chardonnay
This is a wine that has been slowly
softening in bottle for a couple of
years to the point where we are now happy for it to see light of day.
A bold Chardonnay, with many Canobolas-Smith hallmarks, it is named for the
drought year. 2003
gave us a small crop of intense
fruit and coming as it did on the
back of a run of excellent wines,
we have been hypercritical of this
wine. It doesn’t yet have the
finesse and elegance of our top
Chardonnays but it may achieve
this in time. It is great value and
has been received well at cellar
door over the past six months. It will match most full
flavoured foods. Drink now – 2013.
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