St. Andrews Chardonnay 2018

Nose: The wine has ripe white peach aromas along with hints of tropical fruit and subtle creamy oak. Enticing sweet spice and savoury cashew nut from the French oak add complexity to the bouquet.

Palate:This is a medium-bodied yet sumptuous wine with an enjoyable creaminess to the mid-palate. Flavours of juicy white fleshed stone fruit are evident along with cleansing citrus at the finish which has wonderful persistence and length from the use of quality French oak.

Colour: At release, the wine is a youthful pale straw colour with vibrant green hue to the edges.

Grape Variety: Chardonnay

Dry/Sweet: Dry

Vintage: 2018

Range: St. Andrews

Blend or Single: Single Variety

Region: Clare Valley

Wine Body: Medium

Oak Maturation: The wine was matured in a combination of French (10%) and American (90%) oak for twelve months followed by fining, minimal filtration and then bottling.

Vintage Condition: The growing season was characterised as warm and dry for vintage 2018, the only year in recent times warmer was 2016, which produced some excellent, award-winning wines. One of the great things about this vintage, though, was that we avoided any major heatwaves during vintage which can be very damaging and so to that end, vintage was relatively calm and controlled. Overall, our winemaking team are very excited about the quality of the wines from this vintage. In terms of the white varieties, these wines are highly aromatic with very pure and distinct varietal characters.

Cellaring Notes: Crafted for immediate enjoyment but will cellar over a medium term under ideal conditions.

Alcohol Volume: 13.0

Residual Sugar: 1.3

Standard Drinks:

pH: 3.3

Trophies Awarded: 2