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Brown Brothers 2007 Late Harvest Orange Muscat & Flora

Posted by cfoldi On 14.2.10 0 comments

A sweet muscat from Brown Brothers (Australia).

Golden hey coloured with a fresh and youthful grapey, melon and sweet orange on the nose followed up by a bit honey at the back.

Dried apricots in the mouth.

I was waiting lot more impression, lot more taste.

A very bad balancing wine, close to a sweet syrup -almost none acidity in it.

No aftertaste.

Sad to say but the truth is: it's a poor dessert wine.

For NZ$ 10. (375 ml)

Posted by cfoldi On 7.1.10 0 comments

Light golden in colour, the nose abounds with rose petal and branches of floral characters.

To be honest I expected more on palate. Honey and sweet spices come hard -even too hard, make the wine not well-balanced.

Also has a bit more alcohol level than a dessert wine should have (13.5%).

This year had a warm autumn in Gisborne, New Zealand - I'm quite sure another vintage will show more complexity with better balance on palate.

It's price is 16-18 NZ$.