Yering Station Reserve Chardonnay 2021

Tasting Notes
Colour: Brilliant pale straw with green hues.
Nose: A complex nose of delicate white florals, powerful peach and nectarine fruits with perfumed spice from French oak.

Palate: Wonderful intensity from the outset with white stone fruits and a wet slate, flinty reduction carried by a tight and linear line of driving acidity. Texture builds through the mid palate to a delicious al dente chew with lots of lovely savoury almond notes and subtle toast from the large format oak.

Cellaring: Enjoy now or in ten years with patient cellaring.

Winemaking
Composition: 100% Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13%
pH: 3.22
Fermentation method: Barrel
Fermentation time: 10 days
Barrel Origin: France – 500L puncheons
Barrel age: 20% new
Time in barrel: 10 months

Viticulture
Region: Yarra Valley
Date of harvest: 22nd Feb – 26h Feb 2021
Vine Age: 10-22 years
Yield: 2.5t/acre
Clone: Mendoza
Method: Hand picked
Soil type: Duplex grey loam over yellow clay
Cultivation practices: Cane pruned VSP