2011 Chardonnay
The fruit for this wine comes from the Suma Park Vineyard on the Bellarine Peninsula yielding one tonne/acre. The hand-picked fruit was whole bunch pressed into 100% new French oak puncheons for fermentation & MLF by indigenous yeast on full solids. The wine components were left in barrel on gross lees for a further 11 months prior to blending and bottling.
Complex, intense flavours - citrus, hazelnut, and gun flint. Mineral flavours mingle with the firm structure and creamy texture on the palate.
REVIEWS
Huon Hooke, January 2014
Deep yellow with golden reflections. Smoky oak, slight sulfides, malt and nougat as well, very complex and Burgundian with some honeysuckle high-notes. Very fine, taut palate, tightly bound together and nervy with lots of acid. Excellent wine. The wine has filled out around the acidity and will continue to do so. Find review here.
Andrew Graham, Australian Wine Review, July 2014
It takes a special site, careful viticultural and some serious skill to make a smart wine in a hard vintage. Hi-five Ray Nadeson and team.
Loads of bubblegum funk here - solids aplenty, the gelatine and white flower funk over what is a nicely intense and rather pure palate. Minimal oak, briny acidity driven, with the winemaking covering over any leanness in the fruit. Is that solids character a little too overt I wonder? Regardless this is mighty stylish, fresh and vibrant booze. Find review here.
Jeremy Pringle, Wine Will Eat Itself, December 2013
No shortage of personality in this offering from Ray Nadeson and the Lethbridge crew – and we’ve come to expect nothing less.
A complex array of scents; apricot blossom, leesy bread and funkier grilled cheese, roasted hazelnuts, lime and nectarine. It’s rich yet it maintains a distinctly savoury edge. Plenty of unforced textural appeal balanced by the almost intimidating presence of struck flint. Full-bodied, slippery and wild but never overblown. Tempted to go a point higher on account of the amount of intrigue generated, 92 pts. Find review here.
