Tasting Notes:
Colour: Medium straw with light green hues.
Nose: White peach, light toasted oak and macadamia nut note. Light buttery complexity with a ginger lift.
Palate: Clean, crisp acid with stone fruit and lemon zest. Some phenolic lift from the oak adds interest and appeal.
Potential: Drink now but short term cellaring will add further complexity and varietal definition.
Foods: Baked snapper with a black olive tapenade. Three Cheese fondue.
Blackbilly wine is produced using the famous vineyards of McLaren Vale, Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu Peninsula known for wines of richness and diversity. Using modern and traditional winemaking techniques in our 100+ year old winery, we craft wines of exceptional value and flavour for drinking and enjoyment.
This is the first vintage of Blackbilly Chardonnay sourced from a single vineyard in the high altitude Adelaide Hills. Distinctive in varietal aromatics and flavours with complexity generated from winemaking techniques – including use of new French oak puncheons (10%) and light malolactic fermentation.
Simple, minimalist winemaking techniques are used with emphasis given to preservation of fruit and varietal character. We have bottled it quickly and under a screw cap seal to maximise freshness. Whilst it is intended to be drunk as a young wine, cellaring will develop some complexity including nuttiness. Served chilled with seafood & white meats or cheese fondue.
James Halliday Rating Australian Wine Companion 2009 Edition
4 Star Winery – Excellent winery able to produce wines of high to very high quality, knocking on the door of a five star rating. Will have one wine rated at 94 points or above and two (or more) at 90 or above; others at 87 to 89.
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