This vineyard lies just inland from the coast. Its sandy, schisty soils are well weathered. These chardonnay vines run east-west with a slightly sloping northern aspect.
100% Calgardup Brook Vineyard
100% Single Vineyard Chardonnay | Gingin clone
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2022
Varietal
Chardonnay
Vineyard
Calgardup Brook Vineyard
Harvest Date
25th February
Aging
1-15 years
Alcohol %
12.8
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
The nose opens with notes of sea spray, jasmine, and nashi pears. Wild fermentation with full solids provides flinty, matchstick complexities and the extended time spent on fine lees with regular Batonnage add volume and definition to the palate. A distinctive saline, savoury acidity and attractive chalk-like minerality are the benchmark characters of this unique Southern Margaret River vineyard near the Indian Ocean..
Vineyard
100% Calgardup Brook. This vineyard lies just inland from the coast. Its sandy, schisty soils are well weathered. These chardonnay vines run east-west with a slightly sloping northern aspect.
Wine Making
Hand-picked, whole bunch pressed and transferred directly to oak with full solids. Fermented by native yeast in the finest selection of French oak barriques (approximately 30% new). Batonnage to encourage autolytic activity was based on flavour and no MLF to retain the natural acidity of this vintage. The wine was racked out of barrels with full lees to tank in December before bottling in February 2023.
Vintage Report
A season that slowly escalated into a very hectic but also exciting harvest. A cooler and wet Spring saw vine growth delayed in development, and we were set for a late start of harvest. But then Summer came, and it was full of sunshine, dry and warm through December, January, and February with
warm days and some warm nights. Ripeness across all white varieties was quicker than average with a rather compressed Chardonnay harvest. Quality across all whites is excellent, with lots of flavour and concentration yet retaining perfume and drive.