'Pink Hit' Gewurztraminer
2010

Intensely flavoured with a unique perfumed bouquet, this Gewurztraminer has passion fruit and lychee characters on the nose and palate. Left slightly sweet, and made in a light to medium bodied style. It retains spicy tropical fruit flavours and finishes with a crisp food friendly acidity.

The Vintage

Vinification

At around13.0 Baume the grapes were harvested in the cool of the night, and then whole bunched pressed immediately while at peak freshness to retain their unique characters. Specially selected yeast strains were used to ferment the juice for 2 weeks in a stainless vat at a maximum of 18 degrees C. As soon as it was stable and ready for bottling it was packaged in premium claret bottles and closured with a screw-cap to retain maximum fruit freshness.

Technical

Alcohol by volume; 13.0% v/v
pH; 3.13
Titratable Acid; 6.70g/L
Residual grape sugar; 10 g/L
Varieties; 100% Gewurztraminer
Geographical Indication; McLaren Vale, South Australia

Awards and Accolades

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	2010 Pink Hit Gewurztraminer, Silver Medal Vienna International Wine Challenge 2011 View Editorial  |  Visit Web Reference EDITORIAL: AWC Vienna is the world’s largest wine valuation and the only international wine valuation in Austria which is officially approved by the European Union for the purpose of granting awards for wines! The panel of experts of awc vienna 2011 consists of national and international oenologists, wine experts, sommeliers, gastronomers, wine traders and journalits. The prerequisite for admission as member of the panel is the attestation of an official wine tasting exam according to the Austrian Wine Law or to an equivalent international sensorical experience.
	94 Points Tony Keys Tony Keys, Key Review of Wine No 36, June 2011 View Editorial  |  Visit Web Reference EDITORIAL: I have to confess to a decades old love for Gewurztraminer and after years of being disappointed at Australian offerings I am very pleased to see good ones coming to market; I just loved this its not a great wine but hell it’s a very enjoyable one on a dispassionate professional scale I think it rates 90 on a hedonistic one I think 94 on whatever scale its outstanding value at $17 Wines in this section that tickled my taste-buds enough to get a ……..TOP KEY………… All Saints ‘Alias’ 2009, Conte Estate ‘Pink Hit’ McLaren Vale Gewurztraminer 2010 That is it for this issue, be happy, stay healthy and drink well Tony
	2010 'Pink Hit' Gewurztraminer, Silver Medal 2011 San Diego International Wine Competition View Editorial  |  Visit Web Reference EDITORIAL: SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION STAFF Director Robert Whitley, Creators Syndicate & Reuters & Wine Review Online Robert is a syndicated wine columnist with more than 20 years of experience as a wine journalist. He writes the weekly Wine Talk column for the Creators Syndicate as well as a monthly Vine Talk column for the Reuters news service. Robert also is Publisher of Wine Review Online, an online wine publication that attracts more than one million visitors annualy and nearly 500,000 page views per month. Chief Judge Michael Franz, Editor, Wine Review Online Michael is the Editor of the online wine publication Wine Review Online. He also contributes a monthly column and weekly reviews. Michael wrote a bi-weekly wine column for the Washington Post for a number of years before accepting the position at Wine Review Online. He also contributes to a number of national and international publications and has judged wine competitions the world over. Assistant Director Rich Cook, California Grapevine Rich is a regular on the California Grapevine tasting panel and creator of Wine Wise Web, a wine blog.

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