Hunter Food

McGuigan Wines
McGuigan Wines is the culmination of the McGuigan family’s involvement in the
Australian wine industry, which spans more than five decades and four generations.
The company was established by third generation family member Brian McGuigan
and his wife Fay in 1992 in the Hunter Valley. In little more than a decade, McGuigan
Wines has experienced phenomenal success; it is now Australias third largest wine
company and exports half of its wine to overseas markets.
A comprehensive range of wines are available for sampling at McGuigan Cellars,
on McDonalds Road in Pokolbin.
MCGUIGAN WINES TASTING NOTES
McGuigan Late Pick Traminer Hunter Valley 2003
Colour Pale yellow green
Nose Powerful strawberry pineapple and rose petal
Palate Medium bodied fruit driven wine showing intense rose petals citrus flavours. The wine has a rich structure from
residual fructose, glucose and is complemented by the crisp acid finish.
Due to extremely dry growing conditions and small berry size the fruit ripened extremely fast and started to lose weight
rapidly. The fruit was handled reductively on arrival. The clarified juice was then put in refrigerated tanks where additional
water was frozen out to increase the fruit and flavour concentration. The juice was fermented with a high sugar tolerant
yeast and the fermentation was stopped once the alcohol reached 10.2%. The wine was lightly fined and cold filtered prior
to bottling.
McGuigan Rose Hunter Valley 2004
Colour Pale crimson
Nose Strong blood plum and fresh raspberry. Highly floral with some muscat terpenes.
Palate A soft full bodied wine with fleshy fruit and good persistence. Some buttery almonds and fresh raspberry flavours
dominate the flavour profile.
The grapes were machine harvested at night in three tonne bins and directly crushed and chilled into potter fermenters.
After 12 hours skin contact juice was drained from the potters and passed through a centrifuge. The clarified juice was
then inoculated with the yeast strain EC1118 yeast and fermented at cold temperature for two weeks. Upon completion of
fermentation the wine was clarified and given a light fining with bentonite casein.
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