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2006 Chardonnay

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Tasting Date: 23 March 2012

Still youthful with a restrained mineral nose and precise, flinty complexity. The palate charges forward with white peach and richer, broader tones; a sign of things to come. Charming and elegant with considerable potential.

Tasting Date: May 2007

Colour of pale straw. A nose of stonefruits, with lemon and a distinct mineral edge. The palate leads with nutty stonefruit, following with crisp acid and cleansing minerality. Very rich and mouth-coating, yet with a bracing clean finish and plenty of grip. The tension is evident despite the riper flavours than we normally see in this wine; certainly no sign of new world fatness. A wine with considerable ageing potential.

2006 Vintage

Our earliest starting date yet of March 17 after a particularly hot and dry summer (many days over 30C with temperatures peaking at 39C). The hot dry weather through flowering resulted in large berries and large crops leading us to saignee almost all tanks and make another Vin Gris. 2006 made perfumed and elegant wines with a wonderful natural balance. Perhaps not the fruit intensity or depth of the brooding 2005’s, but wines that can best be compared to the elegant 2001’s and 2003’s. Somewhat of a landmark vintage for us being our 10th vintage and also the first where 100% of our Pinot Noir vineyards are being farmed organically and biodynamically.

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2006 Chardonnay

DOWNLOAD TASTING NOTE

Tasting Date: 23 March 2012

Still youthful with a restrained mineral nose and precise, flinty complexity. The palate charges forward with white peach and richer, broader tones; a sign of things to come. Charming and elegant with considerable potential.

Tasting Date: May 2007

Colour of pale straw. A nose of stonefruits, with lemon and a distinct mineral edge. The palate leads with nutty stonefruit, following with crisp acid and cleansing minerality. Very rich and mouth-coating, yet with a bracing clean finish and plenty of grip. The tension is evident despite the riper flavours than we normally see in this wine; certainly no sign of new world fatness. A wine with considerable ageing potential.

2006 Vintage

Our earliest starting date yet of March 17 after a particularly hot and dry summer (many days over 30C with temperatures peaking at 39C). The hot dry weather through flowering resulted in large berries and large crops leading us to saignee almost all tanks and make another Vin Gris. 2006 made perfumed and elegant wines with a wonderful natural balance. Perhaps not the fruit intensity or depth of the brooding 2005’s, but wines that can best be compared to the elegant 2001’s and 2003’s. Somewhat of a landmark vintage for us being our 10th vintage and also the first where 100% of our Pinot Noir vineyards are being farmed organically and biodynamically.

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