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• One of the most famous winemaking regions in Australia, Margaret River is a cool climate, coastal region renowned for producing wines of distinction and purity. Here, Howard Park as a pioneering winery and one of Australia’s First Families of Wines have selected their best plots of Chardonnay for this exclusive wine.
• The grapes from the blend are sourced from their finest vineyards in the southern reaches of region, where increased cloud cover and prevailing southerly breezes facilitate long, gentle grape ripening. Parcels from the Leston and Allingham plots have been combined to balance freshness and texture in the wine, with the ‘Gin Gin’ and Burgundy clones contributing to complexity.
• Fruit batches are handpicked and cooled overnight in vented crates, hand sorted, and then whole bunch pressed to extract only the free run juice. The oak influence in the wine has been carefully balanced by using a blend of old and new, large and small French Oak barrels to give the wine an elegant but distinctive dimension.
• TASTING NOTE: Pure straw-lemon hue with seductive aromas of pear essence, fresh peach and honeysuckle. The layered and creamy mouthfeel underlays delicate citrus, ripe orchard fruit and toasted hazelnut notes, all combining into an intense and long apple-vanilla patisserie finish.
• BLEND: 100% Margaret River Chardonnay