Winetastic

Having recently re-awakened our taste buds to the delights of dessert wines we thought we would give this 2002 Noble Taminga from the Trentham Estate a go. The grape variety used in this wine was developed by the CSIRO at Merbein by cross breeding Riesling, Farana and Traminer vines.

A soft gold in colour, this Taminga has a gentle honey nose with hues of intermingled light citrus. On the palate it’s a lot lighter than I find most Australian stickies, this is a fruit driven dessert wine that concentrates less on the botrytis characteristics. There are subtle hints of peaches and apricots, with lifted tangs of lemon which make it almost refreshing. This is a wine of excellent structure, all the flavours are well balanced and there isn’t anything overpowering about it.

At only $13 a bottle at Dan Murphy’s this is an excelent value for money sticky. This wine is drinking very well now, or it has the potential for cellaring to allow it to develp some more complex flavours.

Would I buy this wine again?
At such a reasonable price yes, I love the flavour and like the fact it’s not as sweet or sickly as some of the stickies I have tried in the past.