Winery: Providence Vineyards
Region: Northern Tasmania
Variety: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2008
Your Wine Guy says:
Lovely strawberry and cream nose but finishing dry. A traditional European style of Rose and a great match with Salmon Pate or all the anti pasta meals.
92 Points YWG Drink to 2013
Winery Information:
Providence Vineyards is Tasmania's oldest established vineyard, producing premium quality Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling and Semillon wines.
Jean and Cecile Miguet arrived in Australia from France in about 1950. Jean was a welder Citra Fougerolles, a French company contracted to build the Trevallyn power station and dam for the Hydro Electric Commission. He worked in the Trevallyn tunnel, welding together sections that formed the water pipeline from the Trevallyn dam to the power station on the Tamar. Jean, the son of a fifth generation winemaker from Provence, France brought with him the family's traditional love of wine and winemaking
Following an extensive search of Tasmania for a suitable piece of land to grow wine grapes, the Miguets settled on the land known now as Providence Vineyards. Madame Miguet recollects with a chuckle their original investigation of the property. Whilst she was looking over the house Jean was moving around the property with his soil thermometer. He arrived at the house elated and announced that they would take the property. Madame Miguet cried: "But Johnny, you haven't seen the house yet!" Jean Miguet did not need to see the house that was to be his home for the next twenty years.
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