Description
Mount Horrocks Wines is operated by proprietor/winemaker Stephanie Toole, who restricts production to approximately 3,500 cases per annum in order to achieve her aims of quality and single vineyard expression. All three estate-owned Clare Valley vineyards, totalling ten hectares, are ‘A certified’ by Australian Certified Organic (ACO). James Halliday says “Stephanie Toole has never deviated from the pursuit of excellence in the vineyard and winery. She has three vineyard sites in the Clare Valley, each managed using natural farming and organic practices. The attention to detail and refusal to cut corners is obvious in all her wines. 5 Red Star Winery”
Stephanie carefully crafts “essentially hand-made food wines with emphasis on structure as well as generous fruit flavours”. Only estate grown grapes are used and these are hand-picked and gently handled under conditions that ensure the varietal and site-specific flavours in the resultant wine, as well as its organic status, are retained. As no finings have been found necessary the wines are all suitable for vegans and vegetarians. Only the finest French oak barriques are used for those wines spending time in barrel.
“A highly risky and complex process, the making of this wine is very much about seat-of-pants decision making and this is where the experience of 30 vintages certainly helps!” says Stephanie.
The high-risk part comes after the canes that feed the fruit are cut – causing that fruit to concentrate – effectively using the vine as a drying rack for the fruit. Much depends on the weather conditions that follow – sunny and dry conditions work wonders; wet, cold or windy conditions all bring challenges. Stephanie uses intuition to decide the day to harvest.
This is a unique, delicious, concentrated wine that delivers all the hallmarks of riesling – citrus, florals and spice; beautifully expressed through an intense yet perfectly balanced palate and a pristine, clean finish.
Stephanie’s labour of love, this is the ultimate in reliance on weather to concentrate riesling grapes on the vine. An excellent season with some hot weather to close was perfect for Cordon Cut. This is a thoroughly engaging wine from start to finish. Fresh, vibrant, luscious lemon and lime juice, with ginger and spice notes. Bright, long acidity keeps it lively, not unctuous and leaves one craving another sip. Quite irresistible. Now to 2035 or more.
96 Points, Tyson Stelzer, Top 250 Australian Wines 2024 “Cordon Cut is one of my favourite Australian dessert wines, and Stephanie Toole has beautifully captured the cool and elegant 2024 harvest in her latest release. I love its precision and purity, perfectly capturing a wide kaleidoscope of fruit from lemon and lime to peach and nectarine and the exoticism of apricot and persimmon. Zest and flesh contrast perfectly on a finish of perfectly balanced sweetness and racy, cool season acidity. One of the true greats!.”
93 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review “Bright, light yellow colour with sweetly ripe floral riesling aromas suggesting creamy lees, pastry/applecake, candied citrus peel and spicy bush honey. The palate is slightly raw and firm with a little phenolic hardness and frisky feel undercutting its substantial sweetness. It needs a bit of time to settle, and will be a lovely drink in time. The aromas and flavours are beautiful.” Drink 2026–2038
RRP $49 Our Special Price $38.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine (375 ml bottles)
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