Old Kent River Chardonnay
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OLD KENT RIVER Vineyard Premium Range
2009 Chardonnay
The Noacks and winemaker Michael Staniford produce an elegant restrained and complex style from Chardonnay. This wine is the antithesis of the high alcohol and heavily wooded wines that were often made from that grape variety elsewhere in Australia during the mid-1990s, when Old Kent River started producing wine from the great white variety of Burgundy. The wine also has the structure to develop great complexity over several years under good cellaring conditions.
The Chardonnay fruit is typically picked at 12.5 to 13.5° Baumé and barrel fermented in a mixture of Vosges, Alliers and Troncais oak barrels. The amount of the wine that is allowed to undergo malolactic fermentation is adjusted according to the characteristics of the fruit produced in that year.
The bouquet of the Old Kent River Chardonnay combines attractive ripe lemon, peach and nectarine aromas and just the right amount of background charry oak. The palate, which contains rich nectarine, grapefruit and tropical fruit flavours, has an attractive creaminess, derived from the yeast lees. The finish is long, clean and crisp. While the Old Kent River Chardonnay drinks very well when young, it develops attractive, complex characters with 5 - 7 years bottle aging.
Achievements include: 3 Trophies, 4 Silver Medals and 13 Bronze Medals.
Selected by Qantas — first class cabin wine / Best of the West — Winestate.
2009 Chardonnay
The Noacks and winemaker Michael Staniford produce an elegant restrained and complex style from Chardonnay. This wine is the antithesis of the high alcohol and heavily wooded wines that were often made from that grape variety elsewhere in Australia during the mid-1990s, when Old Kent River started producing wine from the great white variety of Burgundy. The wine also has the structure to develop great complexity over several years under good cellaring conditions.
The Chardonnay fruit is typically picked at 12.5 to 13.5° Baumé and barrel fermented in a mixture of Vosges, Alliers and Troncais oak barrels. The amount of the wine that is allowed to undergo malolactic fermentation is adjusted according to the characteristics of the fruit produced in that year.
The bouquet of the Old Kent River Chardonnay combines attractive ripe lemon, peach and nectarine aromas and just the right amount of background charry oak. The palate, which contains rich nectarine, grapefruit and tropical fruit flavours, has an attractive creaminess, derived from the yeast lees. The finish is long, clean and crisp. While the Old Kent River Chardonnay drinks very well when young, it develops attractive, complex characters with 5 - 7 years bottle aging.
Achievements include: 3 Trophies, 4 Silver Medals and 13 Bronze Medals.
Selected by Qantas — first class cabin wine / Best of the West — Winestate.
