2021 DAVID FRANZ Semillon 'Madiera Clone' - Eden Valley SA
Very Bright straw with hints of pale apple green.
Honeyed Wax Lemon and golden summer grass over hints of rich yeast and aromatic dried herbs
PALATE:
Zesty lemon curd pie with a smooth honeyed finish. Balanced fruit and textural mouth weight fill the mouth with the light delicate combination of pure varietals, herbal leaves and yeast complexity. The super light and clean palate lingers on beautifully leaving the mouth ready for the next sip.
Very Bright straw with hints of pale apple green.
Honeyed Wax Lemon and golden summer grass over hints of rich yeast and aromatic dried herbs
PALATE:
Zesty lemon curd pie with a smooth honeyed finish. Balanced fruit and textural mouth weight fill the mouth with the light delicate combination of pure varietals, herbal leaves and yeast complexity. The super light and clean palate lingers on beautifully leaving the mouth ready for the next sip.
Very Bright straw with hints of pale apple green.
Honeyed Wax Lemon and golden summer grass over hints of rich yeast and aromatic dried herbs
PALATE:
Zesty lemon curd pie with a smooth honeyed finish. Balanced fruit and textural mouth weight fill the mouth with the light delicate combination of pure varietals, herbal leaves and yeast complexity. The super light and clean palate lingers on beautifully leaving the mouth ready for the next sip.
Winemaker:
When I finally came home to the Barossa, the desire to make wine was burning bright. Peter (my father) in his wisdom set me to work as a labourer in our vineyards. As he put it, “first you have to understand
where wine is really made”.
Through experience and great mentors, my knowledge and passion for
our vines has grown. I now manage the family’s Stelzer and Stonewell
Hill vineyards (around 75 acres). Carte blanche in the vineyards has
allowed for a focus on producing fruit of the highest quality, without
compromising for the sake of yields. In real terms it means that I
produce my wines from the vine to the bottle. Pruning is where the
journey starts, not just when the grapes are picked and arrive at the
winery.
As you may have gathered, I am very passionate about the fruit I
produce and wines I make. You can savour my wines in the knowledge that
they have been nurtured first for a year on the vines then crafted for a
few months in the winery before 4 years maturation in wood and the
bottle. Each bottle of wine is carefully hand printed and wrapped before
being placed in a hand printed carton then sent out into the wide world
to find their way to you.
David Franz Lehmann
PHILOSOPHY:
There has been a quiet little extinction event taking place in the Barossa over the last 15 odd years that is pretty sad, but realistically necessary. This mass culling is of a variety near and dear to my heart, and unsurprisingly - given the bottle I’m penning these words upon - is Semillon. Now, you’re probably asking why on earth I’d see it as ‘necessary’ when it is a variety I so patently adore. The simple answer is two things. 1) There was too bloody much planted, in the wrong soil giving an ocean of ‘Vin Ordinaire’! 2) the vines being removed have on the whole started from the poorest quality producers and moved towards quality over this time. Right now, however, it’s time to call ‘UNCLE’ and save the rest. How? Simple - pay a PREMIUM price to the grower so they don’t want to pull it out and most importantly... Make it bloody delicious BAROSSA expressions of this variety so we all want to drink it. My choice is Madiera Clone Semillon, Grown lovingly on Sand!
PRODUCTION:
2021 Madiera Clone Semillon - roughly half Grown in the Ebenezer Sand by the Kleinig Family and the other half grown in Vine Vale by David Neldner
