2012 Tahbilk The Tower MVR

Tahbilk make an Australian icon: their Marsanne. And the MVR is a mixture of that and Viognier and Roussanne. Both Marsanne and Roussanne are what I would describe as pretty rare in Oz wine. But try the MVR if you want to get back to wine the colour of rock-pool seawater:  a kind of clear gold tinged with green. It smells of strawberries and lime, if that's possible. And is kind of salty like sea water. It would be fab with food: whitebait or sardines. At the time that I write this, it's new to Dan Murphy's in Lismore: thank god someone had the nous to get it.