2022 Kooyong Estate Chardonnay 750ml

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Kooyong Estate Chardonnay comprises fruit from the 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 consistently chosen, giving this wine an underlying likeness across vintages. The grapes were gently whole-bunch pressed directly into French oak barriques (15% of which were new) where fermentation occurred spontaneously with ambient yeasts.

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 complexing 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 fermentation. The acid line is fine and long providing vibrancy and freshness through the palate with a talc-like grip.