"Looking for Mick"
I may have misread the name of this winery, as when I fired up the wine mobile and headed south in search of it I had a rolling stones tune running through my head and was thinking of Mick Jagger.
Since
moving to McLaren Vale we haven’t done much of the tourist trails so one
weekend we decided to head down to Victor harbour to do some whale watching.
Half way there we came round a bend and saw the sign for Mt Jagged winery.
Ohhhh, Mt Jagged, not Mick Jagger....right, back to the story. Heading up a hill, (yes it's more of a hill than a mountain), and round a bend
at a hundred clicks meant we had to turn around and come back but it was worth
it. We discovered a beautiful little cellar door that looks out across paddocks
and a pond with distant views of the hills meandering down the Fleurieu peninsula
towards Victor Harbour. This is a small scale family wine business and
everything is small batch.
One of the
wines we walked away with was this single vineyard Chardonnay. Only 200 dozen
are made of this wine, with fruit coming from their highest block where vines
grow on free draining dolomite soil. The slightly higher elevation of these
vineyards gives the wines a cool climate feel and they have used new and old
French oak and left the wine on lees for 10 months.
The result
is a very crisp European style of wine with yeast sourdough aromas and
flavours, with characters of cashew, grapefruit, cumquat and mandarin. The oak
is evident but not over powering and the crisp acidity makes this a versatile
wine which goes well with both winter and summer style dishes.
Mt Jagged
have used a really heavy premium burgundy bottle for this wine that has such
weight that more than once I tried to refill my glass only to find it was empty
Have this
wine with mushroom risotto or Crab. I was hungry so I had both. Two thumbs,
(crab claws), up.
Current
vintage is 2007. Price is $36.00 from Cellar Door
Drink now
or cellar for up to five years.
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