Description
Pale straw green in colour with a complex bouquet, nutty and lifted. The palate is fine and deep with a long finish.
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Rosabrook Single Vineyard Chardonnay
$45.00
Modern style Chardonnay with crisp acidity
Product Tasting Notes
WINEMAKER’S NOTE: Pale straw green in colour with a complex bouquet, nutty and lifted. The palate is fine and deep with a long finish.
VINTAGE CONDITIONS: An excellent vintage for Margaret River Chardonnay.
VINEYARDS: The fruit for this wine was sourced from a single vineyard site – one of our vineyards in the Northern Margaret River wine region. The vineyard was planted over 17 years ago, a mature and low yielding site.
VINIFICATION: Hand-picked grapes were chilled overnight and whole bunch pressed. The juiced was fermented with wild yeast in barrel where it remained for eight months, then carefully clarified and bottled.
VARIETAL: 100% Chardonnay
VINTAGE: 100% 2016
REGION: 100% Margaret River
ALCOHOL: 12.3%
TOTAL ACIDITY: 6.9 g/l
PH: 3.33
RESIDUAL SUGAR: Dry
WINEMAKER: Brian Fletcher
CELLARING: Medium Term
AWARDS/RATINGS/COMMENTS:
94 pts, The West Australian Wine Guide 2019
91 pts, 2020 Halliday Wine Companion
90 pts, The Real Review (Huon Hooke)
Bronze medal, 2018 James Halliday Chardonnay Challenge
3.5 Stars, Winestate Magazine ‘Best of the West Wine Show’ 2019 & 2020
Additional information
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Awards / Accolades
91 Points, 2021 Halliday Wine Companion (2016 vintage)
92 Points, 2022 Halliday Wine Companion (2017 vintage)
90/100 The Real Review
94/100 The West Australian Wine Guide 2019
91 Points, Wine Enthusiast Importer Connection
CFV –
The Real Review- Huon Hooke: “Light to mid-yellow colour with a candlewax aroma, which is youthful and straightforward for its age. There are lemony flavours of good intensity and focus. A very nice wine, which just lacks some of the richness and generosity of classic Margs chardonnay.”
CFV –
The West Australian Wine Guide 2019 – Ray Jordan: “This impressive, elegant chardonnay is one of the best from this producer. Engaging aromas of butterscotch and citrusy grapefruit with an underlying nectarine complexity. The palate is light-bodied but intense, with a tight controlling structure that carries it to a very long finish. The minerally edginess adds that final piece to the equation. Nice wine.”
CFV –
Halliday Wine Companion – James Halliday:“From the Northern part of Margaret River. Hand-picked, chilled overnight, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented, 8 months in barrel. Full of peach- white and yellow-plus some grapefruit.”
CFV –
Wine Enthusiast Importer Connection – “The palate echos the nose, all smartly poised on a lean, moderate body, with grippy, back palate acidity nicely juxtaposing the creamy oatmeal-textured midpalate. There are clear mushroom and earth notes that show positive bottle age. The lingering finish and layered flavors suggest that this has the legs to go a few more years.”
CFV –
Halliday Wine Companion – Erin Larkin “Rich, dense and concentrated, the stone fruit is ripe, full bodied and laden with crushed and toasted nuts. The length of flavour is good, it really draws out over the palate. Acid is taut and creates a salivating trampoline on which the fruit can bounce.”