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Description
Candice and Frewin have a particular fascination with Gruner Veltliner, and are probably the first Australian producer to explore 'sub-regionality' with the variety.
This comes from Geoff Hardy's famed K1 Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills, and is a wonderfully pure and pristine expression of Gruner, though it will show slightly cloudy in the glass. It's early-picked and definitely a wine driven by acid and refreshment rather than overt flavour. Aside from a small amount of lees contact to add texture, the focus here is on clean and pure fruit.
As always with CRFT's wines, there is precious little added and it is vegan-friendly. Gruner is a grape excelling in the Adelaide Hills, and no one executes it with more thought and care than CRFT. Give it a go!
95 points
"CRFT have solidified themselves as one of Australia's leading grüner specialists, and no slouch here. It's intensely concentrated with lime, tonic water, ginger, radish, pepper and pink grapefruit. A full ride. Refreshment factor is high, the gloss to texture spot on, the dry, talc-like minerally finish a boon. It is an exceptional white wine in every sense; complex, compelling drinking, distinctly varietal, energetic and pure. Kudos due."
- Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)
