Whicher Ridge Mademoiselle V Viognier 2019
- 91
- $38
- Drink by: 2021 - 2027
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A viognier tale of two vineyards in two regions: 86% Margaret River and 14% off the Whicher Ridge vineyard in Geographe. Got to say the Margaret River component, all luscious and forward, seems to make the running here.
Grapefruit, lime zest, lemon curd, yellow peach, nectarine, it’s all there on the aroma. The Whicher Ridge wines tend to take their leave from the fruit, and in that regard, oak is rarely seen or heard but it’s there.
A lush palate awaits, textural and full, with oak spice, orange blossom, cumquat, lime. Viognier viscosity is very apparent, a good sign. So, too, palate weight.
And the name? The winemaker calls the wine Miss V in the winery and acknowledges that not every consumer can pronounce viognier, so Mademoiselle V, with its play on the grape’s French background, solves the problem.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
