Tahbilk Museum Release Marsanne 2018

“Wickedly youthful, Marsanne has the potential to age every bit as splendidly as Riesling or Semillon. Here's the proof. Bright yellow hues introduce aromas of beeswax, buttered toast, citrus, apricot and pear. The taste remains youthful and fresh with a developing texture – the middle palate is more rounded than the '17 – and is essentially complex. But it still has a way to go.” (Jeni Port, The Halliday Wine Companion). Tahbilk are specialists of Marsanne, one of the world’s rarest grape varieties with its origins in the Northern Rhone and Hermitage regions of France, Tahbilk has some of the oldest vines and largest single holding of Marsanne in the world. Tahbilk’s history with Marsanne can be traced back to the 1860’s with the sourcing of ‘White Hermitage’ cuttings from the ‘St Huberts’ Vineyard in Victoria’s Yarra Valley. The cuttings were in fact Marsanne but sadly none of these plantings have survived. The Estate still does however produce Marsanne from vines established in 1927 – some of the oldest in the world.