FIELD OF MARS - Single Vineyard Range
Field of Mars Viognier Block 1 2025
Variety: 100% Viognier
Region: Pokolbin, Hunter Valley
Vineyard: Keith Tulloch Field of Mars Vineyard
Soils: Transitionary from rich clay, through to pebbly rocks and onto sandy alluvium
Tasting Note
Planted into a unique combination of transitional soils, on the divide between dark fertile cracking clays and alluvial sands. Between these soils there is a narrow band with water worn pebbles, like the edge of a dry stream. The three soils in the same block generates a range of expression in the fruit, showing the full spectrum of Viognier’s personality.
Rich and bold by name and nature, this Viognier fills the glass with ripe fruit perfumes of citrus and orange blossom. Floral scents are in full support, revealing deeper scents of chamomile, brown fig and a dusting of cinnamon.
The palate is full with peach and apricot, building with spiced notes of poached-pear and gingerbread. The oak is whisper soft, allowing these nectar like exotic fruit notes to glide over the warm notes of almond-meal and gingersnap. The bright Viognier fruit wins onto the finish, giving final tangy notes of peach-skin and fig at the close.
This Viognier is delicious already, it will hold with cellaring for 3 to 5 years or so, but its overall harmony now is as good as it ever gets.
Drink: Now – 2031
Limited edition – only 47 dozen made
Technical Data
Alcohol: 12.3
pH: 3.27
