Have you fallen in love with Chardonnay again? Did it never lose favour with you? Then try this on for size.
Picked early in the flavour spectrum to maintain finesse, the whole bunches go direct to the inert gas press. The juice flow from the press is closely monitored with the first and last cuts going to other products. The pristine juice from the middle of the press cycle goes straight to French oak, 25% new. We use a mix of cultured and natural yeast for primary fermentation. During it's time in oak no Sulphur is added. Lees stirred fortnightly for the time in oak. Malolactic fermentation happens in the spring on 100% of this wine. Filtered and bottled.
Awards and Accolades
2014 Vintage: 95 Points - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion "22yo vines, the vineyard having supplied fruit for Penfolds Yattarna for most of that time, early picked, whole bunch-pressed, wild and cultured yeast, fermented (plus mlf) and matured in French oak (25% new). Intense wine, with exemplary varietal expression balanced between grapefruit and white peach, the palate fine and long, the oak handling precise. Its great virtue is the way it stealthily, but inexorably, fills the mouth."
From the Winery
Grown on a north -facing bank of the Derwent River this 22-year-old cool-climate vineyard is widely recognised for producing some of the best chardonnay fruit in Australia including supplying the famous Penfolds Yattarna 10 years in a row. The soils are permeable loams over limestone imparting intensity and aromatic delicacy to the fruit.
Picked early in the flavour spectrum to maintain finesse, the whole bunches go direct to the inert gas press. The juice flow from the press is closely monitored with the first and last cuts going to other products. The pristine juice from the middle of the press cycle goes straight to French oak, 25% new. We use a mix of cultured and natural yeast for primary fermentation. During its time in oak no Sulphur is added. Lees stirred fortnightly for the time in oak. Malolactic fermentation happens in the spring on 100% of this wine. Filtered and bottled.
