Description
"The fruit is hand-picked then whole-bunch pressed in the winery. All the solids are collected and chilled before being put to barrel, which are 50 per cent new French oak. A natural fermentation will occur at cool temperatures over the next one to two months, and then a small amount of stirring helps start malolactic fermentation. The wine is then racked, fined and lightly filtered before bottling 11 months after picking. A complete chardonnay." - Winemaker Notes
"A wine balanced with acidity and richness. There are notes of lemon and vanilla custard, Chantilly cream and dry tropical fruits. Despite the two notes of dairy, there is nothing garish about the wine, nothing buttery or overblown. And, whilst it is full of flavour, so much of that generosity is driven by ripe fruit and beautifully handled acidity. The GC Chardonnay is a wine that offers Chardonnay expression with flavour, and it does so unapologetically. There is, thankfully, a way for these top-end wines to taste of the grape that makes them, without the baggage of winemaker artifice. I’ve spoken before of the hand of Farr, and the ease with which these wines dance so intricately and beautifully, with the appearance of ease. It is this simple elegance that is the skill, and the intricate complexity that doesn’t appear to be so, that is the joy. As always, the GC is a benchmark wine for Chardonnay lovers.” - Ben Knight, Wine Educator & Journalist (benandwine.com)
