Description
2019 Save Our Souls Mornington Peninsula ‘Skin on Skin’ Chardonnay
Alc/vol. 13.5%, 130 dozen made
Mornington Peninsula – P58 Chardonnay from Tuerong.
The wine is complex 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.
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.
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