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Friday Monkey Wines - Riverina, New South Wales

Friday Monkey wines are drinks for any occasion; be it at home, a casual dinner with friends, or at a BYO restaurant. We give you the finest quality wine that tastes good and lets you have all the pleasure. Friday Monkey wines reflect the climate and soil from which they were grown, in their pure form, conveying a unique flavor that cannot be replicated. Our Vineyards Top-quality wine comes from excellent fruit and that is the reason our wines are made in the well known Riverina region, located in the south-east of Australia. We look for color and flavor in the fruit, keeping a balance so that the wine has a rich, concentrated and smooth palate. The Riverina wine region has been producing consistent high quality wines over the years. Situated in New South Wales, the Riverina region is famous for its luscious dessert wine. It produces the bulk of the state's grape harvest. The Harvest time is from early February to early May.

Friday Monkey Merlot (2006)

Tasting Notes This wine has elegant herbaceous and berry aroma, complimented with vanillin oak. The palate has a rich, balanced mouthfeel and a warm finish. Cellaring Potential An easy drinking wine designed for immediate enjoyment and will cellar for 4-5 years. Suggested Food An excellent drinking with red meat or pasta.

Friday Monkey Chardonnay (2006)

Tasting Notes Fresh citrus/melon and white peach fruit aromas in harmony with nutty, vanillin French oak overtones. Concentrated melon, citrus and stonefruit fruit flavours complemented by soft, creamy yeast autolysis and delicate nutty oak nuances. This wine has an excellent structure with great length of flavours that are complex, yet fresh. Cellaring Potential An easy drinking wine designed for immediate enjoyment. Suggested Food Serve nicely chilled. This wine is ideal with good food and would complement most seafood, chicken, game poultry and white meat dishes.

Fuddling Cup - Geographe, Western Australia

The Fuddling Cup vineyard was planted with premium Cabernet Sauvignon in the Geographe Region of Western Australia near Bunbury within sight of the ocean in 2000. Although the plantings were new, award winning Cabernet has been grown in the vicinity for almost 30 years. The goal was to be a small integrated boutique wine business making less than 1000 cases of very high quality Cabernet Sauvignon 'from vine to the glass'. This has been achieved with the very first vintage 2003 attracting critical acclaim receiving a Commended Medal at the Decanter 2006 World Wine Awards and each vintage building on that success. First class viticulture and wine making practices are employed throughout. The 2003 vintage was then matured in French oak for 15 months before bottling. The result is a satisfying deep crimson to purply red, medium-bodied Cabernet full of primary fruits evident blackberry/blackcurrant flavour, well balanced with mild spice and silky vanilla tannins with a long deep finish to the back palate. The 2004 vintage was matured in French oak barriques over 12 months under the supervision of winemaker Simon Keal. The resulting well-balanced fruit driven, long finishing Cabernet has lifted toasty oak and soft tannins. Controlled yields in the vineyard for the 2005 vintage produced excellent varietal character, complexity and ripe tannins. Plum and cassis combine with fine smoky oak aromas from 12 months in French oak barriques. The palate profile reveals many layers and delivers a long finish. Fuddling Cup continues to be a consistent provider of premium boutique Western Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.

Fuddling Cup (2003)

The 2003 vintage spent 15 months in French oak. Great colour - crisp, clear, purply red with good depth. The nose is quite full of primary fruits, tannins are mild spice and vanilla and it has quite good depth in the fruit for a youthful wine - the blending shines through. I can only imagine it getting better with a bit of bottle age, but also in the next vintages - great depth.

Fuddling Cup (2004)

The 2004 vintage was matured in French oak barriques over 12 months. The resulting well-balanced fruit driven, long finishing Cabernet has lifted toasty oak and soft tannins. Plenty of intense flavours, sweet cassis fruit and poised with a lingering finish.

Firescreek Fruit Wines - Central Coast, New South Wales

Firescreek Fruit Wines produce quality handcrafted specialty wine from fruits, flowers and herbs. Select from wines made from Plums, Mangos, Figs, Oranges, Cherry, Australian Rainforest fruits, Chilli, Passionfruit, Elderberry and others.Sweet Orange and Chilli wine. This special wine has an obvious but not overwhelming sweetness with a genuine orange character, a zest of chilli offering warmth without tears.

Fenton Views Winery - Sunbury, Victoria

Fenton Views Winery is located in the Sunbury region nestled on the north facing slopes of Fenton Hill overlooking the Hume and Macedon Ranges. We are a boutique producer of premium quality award winning wines. Wines are closely monitored from the stage of the extended ripening beginning on the vine




With Gratitude,

Josefine

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