K'AVSHIRI White Assemblage 2023

9 Sept

I don’t have alcohol or price details for this Georgian white wine (grown in the Kakheti and Imereti regions) but it’s a blend of eleven different varieties: Mtsvane (20%); Rkatsiteli (15%); Rkatsiteli Kakhuri (15%); Krakhuna (15%); Tsitska (10%); Tsolikouri (8%); Khikhvi (7%); Aligoté (3%); Muscat (2%); Kisi (2%) and Mtsvivane (3%). It was raised in qvevri, stainless steel and seasoned oak and a minor portion spent time on skins. Basically it’s the landscape of Georgian white winemaking all combined into one.

It’s accessible in general but then it also has tannin, salt and lemongrass characters, and it also has a good, purposeful finish. It’s pretty impressive, and feels perfectly pitched. I love the squeaky, grippy finish, I like the lemon pith characters, I like the fruity aromatics and I like the way phenolics have been used to advantage. 91 points.

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Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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