Australia, - No subregion
Chardonnay
Description
This Chardonnay was picked by hand and whole bunch pressed. Ne pas de SO2 and toutes les solides dans this barrel fermentation sauvage – ne pas de yeast added! The oak is tête de hog Français, naturellement mon colonel, then six months stirring avec les lees. We have here un vin restrained, sophisticated, fabrique belgique.
Colour Mid straw
Bouquet Apples and pears, rock melon, smoky oak, cashew, complex
Palate Tarte aux pommes with hints of almond, biscuit, on a tight, textured palate
Grub Match Pate de fois gras
Certificates
Alcohol
13.5%
Analytical data
semi-dry
Vinification
The fruit is crushed as soon as it arrives at the winery and the juice drained off immediately to tank (75%) and French oak puncheons (25%). Fermented by indigenous yeast strains to dryness, and matured sur lie with weekly batonnage for 6 months. This wine was filtered and bottled in December 2018.
Vineyard
Near Woodside in the central Adelaide Hills - 400m above sea level on clay with shale and quartz.
