Dandelion Vineyards Twilight of the Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
HANDPICKED ADELAIDE HILLS CHARDONNAY FROM 5 RED STAR WINERY JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
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- Previous Vintage 95 Points Melbourne International Wine Competition
- Previous Vintage Gold Medal at Women Wine & Spirits
- 5 Red Star Winery James Halliday Wine Companion
- Whole Bunch Hand Picked Adelaide Hills Chardonnay
Vintage: | 2023 |
Source/Region: | Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
Grape Variety: | Chardonnay |
Cellaring: | Drink Now Cellar Mid Term |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 12.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 7.40 |
Rating: | 0 |
Pale-white, straw and hay. Clear and bright. Fresh bread and custard; green apples just picked, apple skin and apple strudel - cold. Aromatics and bouquet demonstrate the fine and also effortless balance between cool-climate chardonnay fruit and deft, demure oak’s distraction. The nose hints at richness but lurking so quietly in the background is honeydew and lotus flower and a secret citrus grove freshly rained upon. Clear clean striking lines of vibrant acidity around which lovingly cling peach, green apple, nectarine and melon fruit bursts. Concentration, then texture, and then richness at the very core. A swathe of justripe fruit flavours return, then more acidity, then a long and lingering finish.
Whole bunches from our best Chardonnay Vineyard in the heart of the Adelaide Hills were hand picked in late March, in the twilight, our Chardonnay's acid sunrise, being the cool of early evening, then destemmed in small batches without crushing the fruit to fill our press exactly.
The free run juice was then fermented in small stainless steel tank between 11 and 14 degrees Celsius and then finished fermentation in some new and first use French Oak Barriques. The wine has a high level of natural acidity, and although bone dry and alcohol of only 12.5%.
Twilight of the Adelaide Hills Chardonnay was bottled after 9 months with minimal winemaking artifact to capture the essence of the vineyard.
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