Description
Geoff Weaver chardonnay
Crisp and tight with a supple mid palate with drying savoury faint grip at the finish. Fresh and delicate with a generous mid palate.
Positive texture adds to the savoury edge.
The Chardonnay is a dry wine of character, complexity and texture.
Many elements combine; the fruit, yeast lees, malolactic bacteria and oak to create this deep, yet subtle wine. None of the flavours dominate.
12 months in French oak barriques. All from forests in the centre of France and Vosges. Half new oak and half second use
It is a wine to keep and allow the flavours to build as the wine ages.
Lenswood, Adelaide Hills
Our Chardonnay is a dry wine of character, complexity and texture. Many elements combine; the fruit, yeast lees, malolactic bacteria and oak to create this deep, yet subtle wine. None of the flavours dominate. It is a wine to keep and allow the flavours to build as the wine ages.
Our style is now well established. It is based upon ripe fruit with the multi-layered complexity. Derived from barrel fermentation, extended yeast lees contact in the barrel and malolactic fermentation.
Low crops mean flavour concentration, early ripening and generally good acid levels because ripening is relatively quick. If ripening is prolonged it leaves time for the natural acids to metabolise and be lost. We rarely need to add acid which I feel is a major advantage for our vineyard. Natural acids are tight and harmonious.
Our first Chardonnay wine from Lenswood was made in 1996.
