Colour: Straw gold
Aroma: Jumps out of the glass with Funk. Flint stone, aged cheddar cheese and chamomile tea. Hints of preserved citrus and lime zest.
Palate: Zesty citrus based fruits with mandarin and lemonade flavours. Complex funky notes of cheese rind and marzipan. Creamy butter and toasted almonds from careful use of oak. Fine boned saline acidity running through the entire palate giving a cleansing freshness to the finish. Salivating.
Viticulture: The vineyard is grown naturally using organic biological principals. Employing seaweed and fish emulsion foliar fertilisers plus elemental sulphur and copper sprays for disease prevention. Nothing is wasted, grape must is composted, mulched and mixed with manures then returned to the vineyard floor. Cover crops of clover, peas and rye grass are grown between the vines which provide nitrogen and green mulch. Canopy management is vital, hedging and leaf plucking are used to control exposure to sunlight and further our effort to deliver perfectly ripe, balanced grapes to the winery.
Vintage Rating 9/10: 2019 was an unseasonably cool growing season. Great for elongating the ripening period of Chardonnays. Flavor development was optimal without over accumulation of sugars. 2019 shows fine elegant styled chardonnays with funky complexity. There was no Marri Flowers so netting of all varieties was necessary.
Vinification: Picked with a selective machine harvester in the early hours of the morning, the grapes are then tipped directly into a pneumatic press. The selective machine removes all petioles, stems, jacks and other unwanted MOG. Pressed at 600L/T to only capture the free-run juice, pressings are discarded and the juice is racked into 50% new and 50% 1-3 year old french oak after 3 hours of settling. Wild yeast are allowed to undertake the ferment with an average maximum ferment temperature of 26 degrees celsius. Weekly battonage post ferment for the first two months followed by bi weekly battonage for the remainder of the maturation (8 months) total maturation 10 months. Bottled using no animal products or tannins.
Alcohol: 12.1%
Review: “Lots happening in this excellent chardonnay. Smoky aromas of stone fruit and edgy lemon blossoms with a penetrating struck-match complexity. The palate has a deep intensity, with layers of flavour accentuated by the battonage regime. That struck match strikes, so to speak, on the finish to complete a very good wine. 95/100 Cellar 9 years Ray Jordan
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