Description
92pt Great Value “dangerously drinkable”(Halliday) Chenin from pioneering, 5-star Coriole.
The family behind the rise and rise of Coriole typify Australian winemakers’ quest to explore all the world of wine has to offer, trialling, adapting and perfect new varieties. The Lloyds could have easily settled for producing some of the best old-vine Shiraz and Grenache in The Vale but spread their wings to Sangiovese in the 1980s and are now also having great success with Chenin, a crisp summer wine from France’s Loire Valley, the Italian white Fiano, getting serious about the Languedoc’s Picpoul.
“From a range of sites, and mostly mature vines (40-year average), fermented in tank, with 5% in old oak. This is one of those wines that you don’t hesitate to grab from the bottle shop – it’s so reliably good and so well priced. That lineage holds here, and then some. Crisp and crunchy, like simultaneously biting into a chilled nashi pear and pink apple, with some lemon, green pistachio, spring flowers and cut herb notes attendant. It’s lightweight and just so dangerously drinkable. 92pts Great Value.” (Marcus Ellis, The Halliday Wine Companion).
