Kooyong Estate Chardonnay

Description

Kooyong Estate Chardonnay comprises fruit from our Faultline and Farrago blocks. It offers an overall expression of the Kooyong vineyard, with parcels of fruit from various soils and mesoclimates blended together to create the Estate label. Year after year the same parcels are consistenltly chosen, giving this wine an underlying likeness across vintages. The grapes were gently whole-bunchpressed directly into French oak barriques (21% of which were new) where fermentation occured spontaneously with ambient yeasts. Following fermentation, the wine was aged on lees (without battonage) for 11 month . It was bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.

The vibrant and intriguing nose offers fresh grapefruit citrus that merges to white pear with a hint of peel, together with struck flint, creamy nougat and a comlpexing note of dried spice. The palate is poised and driven, displaying bright lemon and grapefruit citrus flavours entwined with a creamy lees texture from barrel fermetation. The acid line is fine and long providing vibrancy and freshness through the palate with a tale-like grip. Although drinking well now the wine will benefit from further cellaring in the medium term.