Campbells On The QT Bin 28: 1998 Single Barrel Muscat 1998
Australia, Victoria
Muscat à Petits Grains
Certifications
Alcohol
17.0%
Analytical data
sweet/dessert
Vineyard
The vineyard is planted on red loam over limestone soils. Rutherglen enjoys long warm autumns, perfect conditions to allow the Muscat grapes to hang on the vine and shrivel.
Winemaker
Julie Ashmead
Harvest Notes
crushed and cold soaked on skins for 5 days to extract maximum sweetness and flavour.
Viticulture
The grapes are left late in the season to achieve optimum ripeness, ensuring maximum fruit flavour and a high degree of natural sweetness.
Vinification
Harvested late in the season at 24 baume (43 Brix), crushed and cold soaked on skins for 5 days to extract maximum sweetness and flavour. Pressed and fortified with ultra-premium grape spirit to 19 baume and 17.5% alcohol. This wine subsequently matures in barriques over many years further concentrating the flavour and sweetness to 22 baume.
Maturation
This wine subsequently matures in barriques over many years further concentrating the flavour and sweetness to 22 baume.