2024 Gullyview Estate Albert's Vermentino

WINEMAKER: Jono Koerner
REGION: Clare Valley, SA
VARIETY: Vermentino
VITICULTURE: Organic/Sustainable

On the nose you get scents of banana blossom, grapefruit, with savoury notes and subtle white spice, very appealing. This wine offers incredible texture, it’s silky smooth with a plushness but held together with the underlining Watervale acid structure which keeps it lifted. As expected, there is a beautiful salinity, sea spray character to the wine, which is a characteristic of Vermentino. The minerality from the limestone soils is a show case, balanced out with fresh lemon curd, white peach and nashi pear.

Anthony and Christine Koerner bought ‘Gullyview Vineyards’ on 15 May 1987. Today they are producing some of Australia’s highest quality grapes. In 2023 son Jono Koerner and partner Megan Jenkin established ‘Gullyview Estate’ which pays homage to Christine and Anthony’s hard work through carefully crafted wines that reflect the place in which they call home. The Estate is 70 hectare in total and is located in Leasingham (Watervale) Clare Valley. Jono and Megan only use a small portion of the fruit and the grapes used for the wines they make are chosen from a handful of select sites to best showcase the terroir and variety characteristics. The vineyard is mostly Terra Rossa soils, red clay over limestone, so all the wines have a beautiful underlinging minrality.