Tasting Notes
colour
Mid-straw with a touch of green gold.
aroma
Juicy stone fruit, ripe melon and tinned pear with toasty oak, roasted spices and creamy, buttery notes.
palate
Ripe Chardonnay characters of peach, tinned pears and ripe melon framed with toasty oak, roasted spices and creamy, buttery notes that flood the nose and mouth. A delicious rich and complex Chardonnay.
cellaring
Drinking beautifully now, but will reward careful cellaring for 12–18 months.
Technical
winemaking
Following harvest, the grapes are chilled and softly pressed to liberate the juice – the pressings are added back to the free-run juice following oxidative handling to achieve the house style – a method rarely adopted in Western Australia. The cloudy juice is then fermented in a combination of new (22%) and used French oak barrels, barriques (225L) and puncheons (500L), and tank using a combination of wild fermentations and the CY3079 yeast used for naturally producing texture and savoury characters that marry well with the Evans & Tate Chardonnay style. Following this fermentation on solids, all of the batches that represent each vineyard are allowed to go through malolactic fermentation to full completion followed by maturation on yeast lees – with stirring of the lees done fortnightly to impart texture, balance, integration and complexity to the final wine. After this maturation period, the wine was blended and bottled under screwcap.
region
Australia
variety
Chardonnay
analysis
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- pH: 3.57
- Acidity (TA): 5.0 g/L
Food Pairings
Beautiful with a seafood pasta in a creamy sauce.
