Reviews
95/100 – Halliday Wine Companion (Jane Faulkner, 2024 Vintage)
"A warmer vintage, and while a richer, bolder wine as a result, there's plenty of detail, too. More stone fruit in the yellow and white nectarine spectrum, luscious creamed honey, grilled nuts, ginger spice and a succulence throughout. There's a generosity here and the palate builds, yet neat acidity keeps this reined in. As always, delicious; great on its own and even better with food."
Vineyard
The forth time making wine from this incredible, certified organic vineyard in the heart of Metricup, Margaret River. Twenty four year old 'gin-gin' chardonnay grown in a sandy loam topsoil over a mottled clay subsoil. (In contrast to Willyabrup's dominant forest loam soils with mottled granite).
Winery
The fruit hand picked, chilled, hand selected and then whole bunch pressed prior to fermentation in ten barriques, two of which were new. The wine undergoes a full malolactic fermentation with fortnightly lees stirring prior to maturation for 10 months in barrique prior to blending. The wine is bottled un-fined with a light filtration.
Wine
A complete contrast to the 'Wildberry Springs' chardonnay due to ; sub-region, soil, climate, and fermentation vessel. The allure of creating a new very different chardonnay was too hard to pass up. A wine made with certified organic fruit and treated in the winery 'organically'.
In Margaret River the days are warm due to where the vineyard sits in lattitude and the nights are cool due to the pure afternoon breezes flowing off the Indian ocean. This impacts the wine. It has warmth, weight, richness and flavour but also an incredible freshness with flavours of citrus, lemon, lime, curd, peach and stonefruit.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2024
- Grape Variety: Chardonnay
- Region: Metricup / Margaret River / Western Australia / Australia
- Vineyard: Certified organic; sandy loam over mottled clay
- Fermentation: Whole bunch pressed; fermented in ten barriques; full malolactic fermentation; fortnightly lees stirring
- Maturation: Ten months in barrique, including two new barrels
- Alcohol: 14%
- Drinking Window: 2025–2037
