Vintage
2020
ABV
13%
Wine Type
White
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
This is the colour of Queensland holidays – light straw with a vibrant green hue. Like where the lawn meets the sand on the beaches around Noosa. As you raise your glass, you can smell the fruit platters, piled high with rockmelons, nectarines and citrus blossom, resting on platforms of toasty oak and rain-kissed metal. Then, when it hits your mouth, it’s as if you’re in the local farmers market, feasting on creamy lemon curd, nectarines and pineapple after your slightly-charred-yet-perfect BBQ lunch.
Keep it simple and relaxed with seafood or get cracking with roasted pork shoulder and apples, or whole baked snapper with butter and lemon thyme, or panna cotta with vanilla poached peaches.
Accolades
China Wine and Spirits Awards 2020 Gold Medal, China Wine and Spirits Awards 2019 Gold Medal, Australia International Wine Challenge 2019 Commended, Tastings World Wine Championships 2018 Silver
Winemaker
Pia Merrick (Senior Winemaker Whites)
Winemaker's Bio
Pia Merrick's passion for wine and food started from a very young age in Finland by reading endless books about wine, food and wine science.
After working in England as a Sommelier and finishing Higher Certificate of Wine & Spirit Pia undertook her first vintage in Chile’s Maipo Valley, followed by a number of years working in Tasmania establishing vineyards and working in cool-climate winemaking.
After Tasmania, Pia initiated a successful wine education business in Finland while continuing her studies of Bachelor of Applied Science (Wine Science) in Australia at Charles Sturt University. During those years, Pia also completed two vintages in France. After working in Europe Pia returned to Tasmania to work with Andrew Pirie at Tamar Ridge for a number of years specialising in sparkling wine. This followed by five successful years in Western Australia working in winemaking and seven years in Mudgee, working with fruit from New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.
Pia’s passion is white winemaking and expressing fruit aromas and flavours from the vineyard. She continues her studies with a focus on flavour and aroma precursors.
Having completed an AWAC – Advanced Wine Assessment Course at the Australian Wine Research Institute, Pia has been involved with judging in a number of wine shows in Australia. Including the Royal Adelaide Wine Show. Pia also has a strong background in Quality Management and Food Safety. Pia commenced with Qualia Wines 2019 as white winemaker.