Colour:
Bright medium straw with attractive green tints

Bouquet: 
Fresh cut peaches with a trace of almond, this attractive, dominant fruit nose shows a touch of yeastiness and fine oak.

Palate: 
Fine stone fruit flavours with a long and persistent palate that finishes cleanly with a tight, but soft, acidity.

Food Suggestions: 
Though wonderful on its own, this wine makes an excellent accompaniment to chicken, seafood and light red meat dishes. Try it with a cappaccio of beef.

Cellaring Potential:
This full flavoured wine will gain dimension in its first two years and the soft acidity will see it mature over the next four to six years.

Winemaking Notes: 
We have two vineyards of Chardonnay, planted in 1985 and 1988.  Coonawarra's white wines are wonderfully elegant, fine and invite winemakers to express their style.  In 2009 we chose from several techniques and selected from the barrels to produce this wine.  After cold settling, the wine was inoculated with yeast and a portion was immediately run into oak for barrel fermentation with initial frequent battonage during fermentation and less frequent lees stirring as the wine matured.  A second portion was fermented without the use of oak.  The wine was allowed to undergo partial malolactic fermentatin while on yeast lees.  In contrast to our Riesling in which we take pride in our austere acidity, this wine's quite moderate yet balanced acid adds length and finesse.  The wine received a light skim milk fining before bottling in August 2009.

Oak: