Quealy Turbul Friulano 2022

Quealy Turbul Friulano is a deeply coloured, skin-fermented Friulano from a low-cropping Mornington Peninsula vintage.

Small crops of high quality were the story of 2022 on the Peninsula, and the concentration shows. Ripe estate Friulano was selected, then fermented spontaneously on skins in 800-litre terracotta amphorae for 103 days with no sulphur added and daily stirring. Basket pressing followed, then twelve months in puncheons, twenty per cent new, and bottling unfined and unfiltered with only a trace of sulphur. The variety is not an easy one to farm: yields must be held down and the canopy watched closely, which is a large part of why so few growers in Australia bother with it. The vines were grafted at Balnarring in 2003.

The most deeply coloured wine in the range, a vivid yellow, with snappy citrus, leesy depth and a salty, savoury pull. The phenolics are chewy and precise, the close touched with white pepper. Serve at 13 degrees with roast pork, saffron risotto or washed-rind cheese.

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