Colour: Pale straw with green hue
Aroma: Beautiful citrus notes with lime sorbet and honeysuckle. Alluring nuances of seabreeze and almond meal in the background.
Palate: White nectarines and peaches alongside candied citrus make this a fruit rich chardonnay. Layers upon layers of custard, cashew nuts and flint add to the complexity all enveloped in a creamy moreish texture and saline acidity that lingers forever.
Production: 270 dozen Harvest: February 5th – the earliest on record. Technical Data: Alc. 13.0%
Vinification: Gently pressed directly to the new oak barrels with the balance of the free run juice homogenized and sent straight to barrel. The juice was wild fermented with full juice solids in barrel. The barrels were stirred weekly after fermentation for 2 months then monthly till bottling. 40% new French oak and matured for 9 months before blending and bottling in November 2024.
Viticulture: Our vineyard is farmed using sustainable biological principals. No use of herbacides and creating biodiversity through multi specie cover crops. Canopy management is vital, hedging, leaf plucking and fruit thinning are used to control exposure to sunlight, increase airflow and further our effort to deliver perfectly ripe, balanced grapes to the winery.
2024 Vintage 9/10: After a dryer than average winter in 2023 the vines started growing 2 weeks earlier than normal in September. This set the stage for an early harvest and coincided with the hottest driest summer on record with 6 months without a drop. The vines were generously irrigated to improve quality thru days over 35c and the fruit was clean as a whistle. Harvest commenced 4 weeks earlier than average. An amazing Marri blossom kept the birds off the vines and netting was hardly needed. The resulting wines are very fruit intense with generous weight and structure. Fruit is exceptional.
Review: Continuing the excellent line of chardonnays produced from this terrific producer in Margaret River. In this case, it was barrel fermented, and then it got 33% in new French oak. So, the oak influence is important and significant, and yet it doesn’t overload, allowing the beautiful mix of butterscotch and peach characters, with their lifted florals to emerge. Has a slightly subtle toasty mineral character on the palate, which is quite textured and rich, but presented with a restrained medium body. It’s a lovely wine, drinking beautifully now, but it will continue to evolve over the next eight or nine years. 93 Points. Cellar 8 years. Ray Jordan
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