Edgebaston Chardonnay 2015

Gold: Vitis Vinifera

This is the Eighth vintage of Edgebaston Chardonnay.  The wine includes grapes from a 30 year old vineyard with 3 different clones of Chardonnay planted.  As with previous vintages, the wine shows an elegant minerality with lime-citrus, sourdough and cinnamon flavours.  The tight minerality keeps a wonderful acid grip on the palate showing good aging potential.  A floral note of wild, white flowers such as frangipani and almond blossom is obvious on the front of the nose and follows through the palate.

The tight minerality keeps a wonderful acid grip on the palate showing good ageing potential.

Likened by many to the flavours found in cooler Burgundian and Chablis sites, the focus here is to make elegant wines, the ideal accompaniment to foods such as paella, quail and pork.

Soil Type: Malmesbury Shale on deep red clay, Hutton.

Hand picked Chardonnay grapes, from 4 blocks with sugars from 22 Brix up to 25 brix to ensure a variety of flavours.

Barrel fermented with natural yeasts.  30% malolactic fermentation.

50 % New French Oak – Nevers,  Allier;  Medium Toasted

30 % 2nd Fill French Oak – Medium Toasted

10 % 3rd Fill French Oak

10% Nomblot Egg