Editors notes
Made in a New World fruit-driven style emphasising a broad range of varietal primary fruits. Hand-picked, chilled for 24 hours in small slotted bins, pressed, free-run fermented separately from the pressings then blended back to provide textural play, left on gross lees for a time.
Excellent intensity. Juicy, pulpy citrus and melon, pepper and apple. A whisper of woodsmoke too. Somehow manages to have both crunch and texture. It works and then some.
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- Apple
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- Lemon
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Critic Scores & reviews
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James Halliday
95"TOP 100 WINES OF 2020 Small bunches started the ball rolling for a wine with an excellent mouthfeel and a faint white pepper varietal marker. The length and drive on the finish give the wine serious gravitas. Attention to vinification detail is its own reward."
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Campbell Mattinson
91"Excellent intensity. Juicy, pulpy citrus and melon, pepper and apple. A whisper of woodsmoke too. Somehow manages to have both crunch and texture. It works and then some."
Other vintages
Love this wine? Here's a list of other vintages we have in stock if you'd like to try them as well.
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- Variety Gruner Veltliner
- Vintage 2021
- Brand Hahndorf Hill Winery
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Hahndorf Hill Winery 'White Mischief' Gruner Veltliner 2021-
James Halliday95 points
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Campbell Mattin91 points
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- Variety Gruner Veltliner
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Hahndorf Hill Winery
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Hahndorf Hill Winery 'White Mischief' Gruner Veltliner 2019-
James Halliday95 points
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Campbell Mattin91 points
$22.00
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Locations
Australia
Australia's wine industry is a thriving part of the country's economy, contributing significantly to employment, production, export, and tourism. In fact, the industry is the fourth-largest wine exporter in the world, shipping out 760 million liters of wine to countries including France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. One of the key factors contributing to Australia's success as a "New World" wine producer is the formal export and marketing of its wines through Wine Australia.
Australia's wine regions are scattered across the south and southeast, with almost every state boasting its own vineyards. Victoria, for example, is home to an impressive 21 wine regions. Some of the most famous wine regions in Australia include Margaret River, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, and local regions to New South Wales such as Cowra, Southern Highlands, and Mudgee.
Australian winemakers are known for producing a diverse range of grape varieties, with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir being among the most popular. They tend to focus on producing wines that are ripe, fruit-forward, and easy to drink, using modern winemaking techniques and equipment such as stainless steel tanks and temperature-controlled fermentation.
With its bold, fruit-driven flavors and reputation for quality and diversity, Australian wine has become a popular choice for wine lovers around the world. And with such a broad range of wine regions and grape varieties, there's something for every palate to enjoy.
South Australia
If you like Australian wine, then you probably like South Australia wine. The rich reds produced there put Australia on the wine-making map of the world. With over 40% of the country's vineyards, South Australia can rightfully call itself the wine state.
Wines are produced in several regions throughout the state, though many are naturally grouped together, like Barossa and Eden Valleys, only 15 minutes apart. They include such regions as Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Eden Valley, Coonawarra, Adelaide Hills, Kangaroo Island, Langhorne Creek, The Limestone Coast, McLaren Vale and Wrattonbully to name but a few!
Barossa Valley boasts some of the oldest vines in Australia dating back to 1843 and produces some of the world's finest Shiraz, whilst the 'terra rossa' soils of Coonawarra is most suited to producing outstanding Cabernet Sauvignons. If you're a fan of Riesling, Clare Valley is a great place to explore and for a Maritime climate not dissimilar to parts of the Italian coastline, seek out the wines from McLaren Vale.
Adelaide Hills
Famous for their Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling and Pinot Noir, the viticulture of this region was re-established in 1979 but grapes were planted locally as early as 1839. During the last three decades, Adelaide Hills has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting cool climate wine region, being known to produce elegant, distinct, sophisticated wines. Located in the Mount Lofty Ranges and only a 30 minute drive from Adelaide, this region is home not only to over 90 wine labels and 48 cellar doors, but also to multiple forests, beef and dairy farms, apple and pear orchards.
Known to be one of the largest geographical wine regions in Australia, the Adelaide Hills are made up of two registered sub regions: Lenswood and Piccadilly Valley. These narrow band of hills stretch across to be approximately 70 km long and 30 km wide and border Barossa and Eden Valleys to the North and McLaren Vale to the South.
The climate of this region is considerably cooler compared to other wine regions in the summer, due to the altitudes of the vineyards being 400-700 meters high. The cooler drier climate produces grapes with ideal fruit composition, creating the perfect balance of flavour and acidity.
About the brand Hahndorf Hill Winery
Hahndorf Hill Winery is owned by Larry Jacobs and Marc Dobson, who operate the boutique business together with a dedicated team of staff. Hahndorf Hill's six-hectare vineyard is located at the edge of historic german-heritage Hahndorf village and on the slopes of a gentle hill which, over a century ago, contained a slate quarry. It is very apparent, when walking along the slopes of the vineyard blocks at Hahndorf Hill, that slate forms a significant part of the mineral component of the soils.
With this boutique vineyard nestled in the beautiful Adelaide Hills of South Australia, it is here Larry and Marc are growing and pioneering the Austrian grape varieties of Blaufrankisch, Gruner Veltliner, Zweigelt and St Laurent. The abundance of diverse mineral components in the soil translates into a distinct mineral element within the wine, which is especially beneficial for their Austrian varieties. In addition, the Adelaide Hills enjoys the unique combination of a low mean January temperature coupled with a significantly high diurnal variation. This diurnal variation is a significant quality defining factor according to producers of these varieties in their native Austria.
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