Tonight we’re a little further down the New England Highway than last night. This is another Granite Belt Estate Fruit Petit Verdot, this one from the Mason Wines Booth Lane Vineyard. The wine is more deeply coloured than the Jester Hill, indeed it’s a bigger wine and 14.5% a/v Vs 14%. Black and impenetrable at the depths and crimson at the edges. A big bouquet greets you with violets and strong wafting scents of black berries, black cherries, dark rich plums, spices and vanilla oak.
The palate shows more oak than the Jester Hill but well balanced with the bigger fruit. That fruit is quite powerful and places the wine in the upper medium bodied range.
Very dark fruits offer strong flavours of black cherries and berries, again those dark plums, a little black pepper spice and some dried sage. The mouthfeel is quite svelte and the tannins are a prolonged velvety promenade. The wine offers more as it opens with further time in the glass, now there is a little milk chocolate with a thin coating of liquorice and some purple fruits. The length is excellent as the flavours loiter with a tantalising and protracted parting to which I could offer only one sensical response.
Savoury with some lusciousness and a little earthiness that is very different to the Jester Hill, the mineral granite taste is there but it’s difficult to encounter the soil – rock more than earth.
We had this wine with an organic grass fed topside roast from Boss Meats in Stanthorpe, perfection in partnership and kudos to Anthony Rametta. You can enjoy this Petit Verdot now or anywhere between now and 2028.
Tasted: Saturday 13th March, 2021 without food and then with over several hours.
Alcohol: 14.5%
Closure: Screwcap
Price: $38
Suggested Drinking Window: now to 2028
Winemaker: Anthony Rametta
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