2020 Wombat Creek Vineyard Yarra Valley Chardonnay - Limit 12 Bottles per customer
  • 2020
  • Yarra Valley

Wombat Creek Vineyard Chardonnay

$90
Minus Plus
  • Category White
  • Varietal Chardonnay
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Elegant & refined
  • Food Pairing Oven roasted Murray cod, with a fresh garden salad.
Description

Zesty grapefruit pith, quince blossom, lemon/lime citrus, intensely aromatic with flinty reduction, talcy minerality, and fine integrated oak.

At 424m above sea level, Wombat Creek is the most elevated vineyard in the cool climate region, Yarra Valley, allowing for longer time on the vine and complex, yet elegant wine.

OUTSTANDING, 95 POINTS | HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

"An intense and electrifying wine thanks to its overt acidity, yet the power of fruit can hold its own. It’s also flinty, smoky, loaded with grapefruit and lemon juice plus zest, with toasty oak that’s well integrated. It’s youthful and still in its high-energy phase, a bit more time in bottle will allow some mellowing. Of course, plenty will go for the style immediately as it’s super-refreshing." - Jane Faulkner from Halliday Wine Companion

Limited Allocation
12 bottles per customer 

More details Right
  • Category White
  • Varietal Chardonnay
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Elegant & refined
  • Food Pairing Oven roasted Murray cod, with a fresh garden salad.

TASTING NOTES

Zesty grapefruit pith, quince blossom, lemon/lime citrus, intensely aromatic with flinty reduction, talcy minerality, and fine integrated oak. This is a taught and powerful wine with great poise that drives to the finish.

SERVING TEMPERATURE | 10˚C - 12˚C
CELLAR POTENTIAL | Up to 2028

REGION & SEASON

WINE REGION
Wombat Creek is the most elevated vineyard in the Yarra Valley, making it uniquely situated for premium cool climate wines. At 420m above sea level near Gladysdale, in the outer reaches of the Upper Yarra Valley, it is a true cool-climate vineyard with reliable annual rainfall averaging 1200mm. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines are planted on north and east-facing slopes on soils of red free-draining volcanic loams

SEASON
The 2020 season was unlike any other. Great quality fruit and mild weather throughout harvest were overshadowed by fires across the country and a pandemic that started in the midst of picking. The quality of the wines, though, should not be underestimated.

WINEMAKING

Fruit chilled overnight after picking, before being whole bunch pressed, and then letting the juice settle in tank then before barrel for fermentation. Partial malolactic fermentation and then matured in the same barrels.

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