Mornington Peninsula – P58 Chardonnay from Tuerong.

13.5% ALC/ Vol, 130 cases bottled. 

The wine: A complex wine with an initial hit of floral notes and then moving to aromas of curry leaves, cardamom, ripe stone fruits and green apple. The palate continues with more stone fruit as well as earth and spice. It is a rich, textured, and savoury wine with noticeable tannin and great length.

Eat with: Great Goats Cheese, or Grilled Eggplant, drizzled with hot honey or a combination of both!

The Adina vineyard in Tuerong is planted on a very gentle north facing slope of red brown clay loam. Fruit from P58 Clone was harvested by hand in early March and sorted. The whole bunches were transferred, intact, to a 3-tonne stainless steel tank which was then sealed and left. After 21 days maceration, the grapes were pressed in a pneumatic press to complete fermentation. No further ‘adds’ were made and the wine went through malolactic fermentation naturally. In January 2020, the wine was racked then bottled with a small addition of 40ppm Sulphur Dioxide.