Tasting Notes
This lightly golden chardonnay is aromatically generous giving red apple, custard apple, quince and fresh picked wildflowers. Nutmeg, clove and vanilla bean are the driving secondary spices, complimentary to the apple Danish / fresh pastry lees aromas. Roasted hazelnuts and waves of toasty new oak proceed. The wine is not shyly expressed in the glass.
Fine acid is wound around the wine’s silky lees, driving complexity. In equal measures this King Valley chardonnay shows salinity, ripe fruit and clotted cream which unapologetically fill out the palate. A considered and structured chardonnay. - Producer Note
We make a range of wines from Beechworth, the King Valley, and occasionally the Alpine Valleys as we've been waiting for our own property to reach maturity. The Thorley wines are solely from our farm. The Brunnen vineyard is a tiny parcel of vines across the road from us owned by our neighbours, which we've been working with since 2014. The Obstgarten wines are from a high altitude Riesling vineyard in Whitlands, King Valley. Our Prêt-à-Blanc, Prêt-à-Rosé and Prêt-à-Rouge wines are all blends, assembled with an eye to easy drinking.
Every one of our wines is made with hand-picked fruit. The wines ferment with only indigenous yeast (the waxy stuff on the outside of the grape) and if the wines go through Malolactic fermentation, then that is spontaneous. Where possible, we'd like the only addition made to our wines to be preserving sulphur dioxide. Once our own vineyard is old enough to be mechanically cultivated, we will undertake conversion to organic viticulture there.
We spend a lot more time in the field than in the cellar, so our winemaking practises are pretty simple. We don't fine, and only filter our white wines. - Winery Note
| Product Type | Wine White Chardonnay |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Victoria |
| Sub Region | King Valley |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |