2010 Barrel Fermented Rose
Shiraz grapes, crushed and chilled with 18 hours on skins for colour and character. Total fermentation and maturation in two and three year old French oak puncheons. This is a dry rosé of the classic French barrel ferment style. Bright cherry in colour with lifted dark cherry characters on the...
2009 Hilltops Shiraz Cabernet
The softness and spiciness of Hunter Shiraz has wonderful synergy with the firmer tannins of Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the Young (Hilltops) region of South Western NSW. Maturation for 20 months in older French oak barrels has added complexity to the wine prior to it being bottled in Octboer 2010. Cellar...
2010 Silvereye Semillon
The 15th vintage of this wine. Less dry than traditional semillon. Light honey in colour wwith tinges of green, with some residual sweetness. The bouquet shows tropical fruit, green apples, citrus and grass. The palate is soft and lemony with balanced sweetness. A clean acid finish leaves the palate...
New Releases – March 2011
All the white wines and Roses from 2010 are now in bottle as are the red wines from 2009. We have three new releases for you in this newsletter. They are the 2009 Reserve Shiraz, the 2009 Shiraz, and The Rose 2010. Because of excessive rainfall, we did not produce a Shiraz or Reserve Shiraz in 2008,...
2009 Reserve Shiraz
Single vineyard wine from a 40 plus year old Pokolbin vineyard that supplied the fruit for our much acclaimed Grand Reserve Shiraz 2007. The stunning nose shows the power of this wine. The palate is long and soft with plum and black fruit flavours in balance with smokiness from the new French oak puncheons...
2010 The Rose
This is Mistletoe’s 14th Vintage of this Rosé style. Made from whole bunch pressed Shiraz with a small amount of Hilltops Cabernet added to increase complexity. Beautiful clear, bright, red/purple in colour with a spicy red berry fruits bouquet. The sweetness is in balance with the acidity giving...
2009 Shiraz
This wine wears its Hunter origin like a badge. Traditional destemming and crushing prior to small batch fermentation was followed by maturation in a combination of older French oak puncheons until bottling in November 2010. Spicy fragrant nose with sweet fruit characters leads to plummy, spicy flavours...
2009 Chardonnay
Perfect fruit, hand picked, whole bunch pressed with total barrel fermentation and maturation in older French oak. A fruit driven full flavoured generous palate with mineral, melon, stonefruit flavours combining with creamy oak undertones. Drink now to 2015. Read More →
2009 Home Vineyard Semillon – Sold Out
Last remaining stock of the fantastic 2009 Semillon from the Mistletoe Home Vineyard. Hand harvested from low cropped vines, hole bunch pressed to extract only first quality juice. Cold fermented and bottled early to retain the crisp acidity and lemony grapefruit characters typical of previous Semillons...
2010 Hilltops Noble Viognier
The grapes for this wine were sourced from a Botrytis infected vineyard in the Hilltops region of NSW. Harvested with extremely high levels of sugar, the grapes yielded very low volumes of concentrated aromatic juice. After a long, cold and slow dermentation, the wine was bottled in October 2010. The...
2011 Mistletoe Lane Verdelho