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Forest Hill Vineyard Estate Chardonnay 2018

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Wow, what a wine! This honestly tastes like $40 - $50 Chardonnay. It's rich, complex, intense and long plus, it has the structure to see it develop in the cellar over the next 5 - 10 years. Awesome stuff.

  • Bright straw in colour with aromas of pears, nougat and flint. The palate has flavours of fresh citrus and figs with zesty finish. The lees stirring has built texture and weight across the palate.

    Harvested in the cool hours of the morning and chilled further before some parcels are whole-bunch pressed and others crushed before pressing straight into French oak barriques (30% New oak). Fermentation takes place at cool temperatures with mostly natural yeast. Batonage begins post primary fermentation with partial malo-lactic fermentation. After 8 months barrel maturation to achieve balance, the wine is bottled.

     

    VINEYARD
    Forest Hill Block, planted 1975 and a small component from our younger Highbury Fields.

    VINEYARD
    Sourced from three sites on the Forest Hill Vineyard. Block 8, Block 9 and Highbury Fields 2.

    GROWING AREA & SOILS
    Forest Hill, Mount Barker in the Great Southern. Gravel, loams over clay.

    FARMING
    Dry Grown, Minimal inputs. Row orientation is North – South

    HARVEST
    3rd – 11th March 2018.

    TECHNICAL
    pH: 3.38, TA: 6.75 g/L, Alcohol: 13.5%

     

     

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