2023 Estate Chardonnay
2023 Estate Chardonnay
Stone fruit of white nectarine paired with baked lemon tart and cinnamon spice. This is a wine that delivers minerality and complexity with a creamy marscapone edge thrown in the mix. Fresh, long and complete with a soft phenolic grip that lingers for some time.
Wine Profile
| Vintage |
Other Notes
Higher than average rainfall during flowering and over the course of the season resulted in lower yields on all sites. Flavour and sugar development were prolonged, resulting in more hang time, greater intensity, and drive.
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| Vineyards :: Clones |
Vineyard Notes
Mills (37%), Gabrielle (38%), McCutcheon (15%), Wallis (9%) :: P58, 95, I10V01
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| Harvest date :: Yield |
Harvest Date
Handpicked 23-31st March 2023 :: 1.8-6.0t/ha
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| Brix :: pH :: TA |
pH
12.2-12.6 :: 3.2-3.28 :: 8.0-9.1g/L
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| Winemaking |
Winemaker Notes
Each parcel of fruit was handpicked, hand sorted and whole bunch pressed separately. The fruit was racked and transferred to a combination of new and older oak barrels to carry out a wild fermentation.
Varied levels of malolactic fermentation took place amongst individual barrels to capture the balance within the wine. After 10 months in barrel, this blend was transferred to concrete for 6 weeks prior to bottling unfined and filtered.
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| Winemakers |
Production
Imogen Dillon, Martin Spedding
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| Aging :: Oak |
Aging
10 months :: 17% new French oak and six weeks in concrete
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| Residual sugar |
Residual Sugar
Dry
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| Finished pH :: TA |
Acid
3.28 :: 6.6g/L
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| Alcohol % |
Alcohol %
13.0
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| Production |
Production Notes
January 2024 :: screwcap
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| Tasting Notes |
Tasting Notes
Stone fruit of white nectarine paired with baked lemon tart and cinnamon spice. This is a wine that delivers minerality and complexity with a creamy marscapone edge thrown in the mix. Fresh, long and complete with a soft phenolic grip that lingers for some time.
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| Food :: Temperature |
Food Pairing Notes
Salt and pepper calamari with fresh spring garden greens :: serve at 10-13°C
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| Best drinking |
Bottling Date
2024-2034
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