Extremely heavy rainfall and ferocious spring winds and hail set up one of the most challenging vintages we have ever experienced at Lenswood. Flowering was late, occurring in December rather than November, in rare calm and sunny weather which set us up for good yields. The conditions post-Christmas were characterized by elevated evening temperatures, heavy rain every four days, foggy mornings and low day temperatures. Harvest started in March; three weeks later than usual. By Easter, all Adelaide Hills whites and our Pinot Noir were safely in the winery, and in excellent conditions despite 760mm falling down during the growing season. This was a vintage saved by the outstanding work of the Adelaide Hills viticultural team under extremely trying conditions, with results that exceeded expectations. The Lenswood vineyard continues to show enougrnomous resilience, and the soil health plays an important role in the beautiful wines created in 2017.

Attractive fragrant aromas of apple, kaffir lime and passionfruit seed with mineral notes of crushed rocks and hints of gooseberry.

Concentrated, driving flavours of lime, apple, lemon and passionfruit are perfectly balanced between layers of slate mineralogy and grapefruit acidity, with incredible length and purity.

Pale straw in colour with gold-green hues.

Fermented in tank and bottled post-vintage to preserve the delicate aromatic fruit characters.