The Big Picture

Perricoota is a compact district of beautiful rolling sandhills between extremely fertile plains of duplex riverine soil types. It is that picturesque slither of land between the bed of the old Murray and the distinct red gums of the current path of the mighty Murray River.

Perricoota Wine Region

Climate

Perricoota enjoys many long hours of regular sunshine, which helps winemakers to produce premium production wines that are full in flavour and structure, but with a softer and approachable style.

Soil

Perricoota has a typical Australian riverine landscape of flat terrain with remnants of river red gum forests. Its soils, of moderate acidity tending to alkalinity at depth, are generally red clay loams of good texture with fair to good moisture holding capacity.

Wines

Chardonnay: The region produces some outstanding Chardonnay wines, exhibiting full and balanced flavour suitable for early drinking.

Semillon: Wines of typical lemony character showing good acidity. Perhaps Semillon is even more suited to the region than Chardonnay, but only time will tell.

Shiraz: These are wines of good colour, showing supple medium weight palates of berry flavour, sometimes with a little licorice complexity.

Cabernet: The Cabernet wines typically have excellent colour and are generously flavoured and well structured wines. Good examples are ideal cellaring candidates.

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