Rochford Single Vineyard 'Terre' Chardonnay 2021
RRP: $60.00
94 Points - The Wine Front 2024
“…White nectarine, even hinting at fresh apricot, slight struck match, some spice, sushi seaweed, or so I reckon, with a flicker of cool mint and lime rind. It’s a tight and saline wine, green olive and citrus, plenty of grapefruity acidity, but there’s also a subtle viscous creamy gloss to it, and some nutty flavours too. It’s also fine and flinty, almost chalky in texture, with a zippy lemony finish of fine length. As a style guide only, there’s quite a lot of Chablis-like character to this wine.”
- Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
'Terre' which translates from French to 'Earth' reflects the contribution of these unique soils to this wine.
Tasting Notes:
The wine opens with white peach, a hint of cumquat, oyster shells and other beach fossils, there's umami too. The palate features zesty preserved lemon, river pebbles and margarita salt! There's a real hit of mineral energy here, it crackles with it, the length of the wine is really something!
Winemaking Notes:
Hand-picked on the 21st March 2021
Vinification & Elevage: Fruit was whole bunch pressed directly to French oak barriques (10% new) for primary fermentation. 20% of the blend underwent malolactic conversion, no lees stirring. 9 months on lees in oak. 120 dozen produced.
Viticultural Notes:
Chardonnay clone: I10V1
The fruit for the Chardonnay comes from a single vineyard in Gembrook.
2021 was a prolonged, classical season allowing for brilliant definition of flavour across our range.
Varietal:
Chardonnay 100%
Alcohol:
12.5%
Allergens:
Contains sulphites. Vegan wine