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Chardonnay - 2009
Tasting Note: 100% McLaren Vale fruit – Estate grown
COLOUR: Medium to pale straw.
AROMA: Abundance of fresh ripe apricots & peaches complemented by a subtle hint of oak in the background.
PALATE: A fruit driven style free of malolactic butteriness. Strong peach & citrus fresh fruit flavours, generous mid palate enhanced by a hint of oak. All wrapped up with a clean acid finish.
| Wine Background | |
| Vineyard site | Sand 350 to 600mm deep over clay. North side hills of McLaren Vale. |
| Planted | 1988, 6 acres |
| Trellis | Wide space double cordon, 900mm apart allowing good air flow and light into the bunches. |
| Irrigation | Drip @ 12 litres a vine every 4 days. |
| Season | Very low rainfall through winter & spring gave the vines a poor start to the growing season and a resulting low fruit set. Late spring frosts also did not help. Summer was warm & dry. |
| Harvest | Picked February 10 2009, 12.9 Beaume. 4 tonnes to the acre. |
| Winemaking | Fermented in 2 tonne closed fermenters, temperature controlled between 18 & 24 degrees. Ferment period 8 days. Half the wine finished off the ferment in new oak for 10 weeks and then blended back with the other half which was in stainless steel. Cold stabilised early to arrest malolactic fermentation. |
| Bottled | September 10 2009 Alc 12.9, pH 3.31, TA 6.5 |