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Region: Macedon Ranges
Grapes: Chardonnay
First Glance: Nutty, Saline, Grapefruit, Flint
Acclaim: 95pts
The Wine:
Dry-grown Chardonnay from a beautiful five and a half rows between Malmsbury and Taradale townships. A gastronomic style with breadth, layers, and length that is deserving of generous cooking. Power and freshness combine in the dreamy 2021 season. Decent rains throughout the winter, a moderate summer, and long and gentle ripening made for easy harvest choices and pleasantly spaced harvest in the winery.
P58 planted on its own roots in 1988, N/S Orientation on relatively young (2.6 million years) lava flows of basalt, scoria intermingled with quartz. 450m amsl. Farmed by John Rush, who, along with two brothers, has owned the property for many decades.
Harvested on April 6th, a gentle foot trod of the whole bunches prior to a very long press direct to barrel. Just two large Taransaud casks held the entire volume, with one new demi-muid and one five-year-old puncheon. A further 12 months in stainless culminated a series of gravity racking and sulfur additions to prepare the wine for bottle. Bottled by hand on June 1st, 2023.
The Review:
Jeni Port, Halliday Wine Companion - 95pts
"A bit of an X-Factor here – Malmsbury fruit - combined with a top year, and the result is something quite special. Superfine in flavour and structure, this exudes all class. There's a lovely delicacy to be explored in flavours of hazelnut, grapefruit, white peach, nectarine and hints of flint and spice. Quite alive and full of energy as it moves across the palate, linear in shape and brisling in lemon pastille notes. Top year, top wine."
