Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Chardonnay 2022

Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Chardonnay 2022Led by winemaking guru Franco D'Anna, the team at Hoddles Creek produce wonderful chardonnay year in, year out that seriously overdeliver at the price point. The wines are made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley. The Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Chardonnay is their flagship chardonnay. "Apple, fresh apricot, and citrus, a very firm and tight line of acidity quite some zing here though the intensity of flavour and length

with tiny quantities of Coonawarra and Magill and just 2% cabernet

or that 4 per cent or thereabouts is co-fermented marsanne (less overt than the more commonly used viognier)

she was named people’s choice at the Young Gun of Wine awards

matured for 15 months in mainly biodynamic oak (50% new)

it finished its fermentation in 100% new American oak hogsheads

In this context

On the nose this wine shows a ripe

but we believe that returning it to what it was – before white people like me got here – has brought out an intensity of flavour

It’s an insurance policy – you hope you’ll never have to use it

Equally powerful notes of grilled cashews

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