The Vineyard Series (VS) Chardonnay is drawn from areas of the vineyard where the natural terroir produces fruit of outstanding flavour and quality.
$34.99
Single Vineyard | Adelaide Hills
Variety: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2025
Planted: 1999 with I10v1 clone
Vineyard: mPress Wines, Select Portion of Single Vineyard, Kenton Valley, Adelaide Hills
Oak Maturation: Mix of older French Oak Hogsheads, Stainless Steel and Concrete Egg
Alcohol: 13.0%
Winemaker: Josh Waechter
When: Drink now or cellar up to 5 years
Food: Roast Chicken with lemon and thyme or grilled Barramundi with lemon sauce.
Winemaker Notes: Grown on an elevated slope of our Kenton Valley Vineyard, high in the Adelaide Hills, the VS Chardonnay fruit comes from a shoot thinned section of the block. This gives rise to an even ripeness and a slightly lower yield, picked to retain natural acidity and bright fruit flavours. Produced from free run juice only and allowed to settle only slightly in order to remove all the heavy solids. The solids were left in the juice to add texture and flavour to the finished wine. From there the batch was fermented with a yeast to enhance the mouthfeel and stonefruit characters. Leaving the wine on lees it was aged in different vessels; concrete egg to add minerality and mouthfeel, used French oak with lees stirring for texture and complexity and stainless steel on lees to create a creamy mouthfeel
Tasting Notes: The Chardonnay is a bright, fresh and lively easy drinking aromatic style. It has aromatics of lemon citrus and ruby grapefruit that dominate the nose. The full-bodied palate offers fleshy white fruits of ripe nectarines, peaches and freshly grated lemon zest. The maturation has produced a complex, rounded finish of brioche, lime blossom and baked spice.
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| Options | Single Bottle |