Tasting Notes

Colour: Pale yellow.
Nose: Peaches and cream.
Palate: Supple, with impressive peach characters and ripe fruit on the midpalate. Medium bodied, it is tightly wound, offering plenty of
lusciousness and seductiveness.
Alcohol: 13% Alc/Vol
Ageing: Enjoy now or over the next year or two.
Food: Mediterranean pastas, freshly grilled scallops

This fifth release of an Unwooded Chardonnay from Elderton has been made to capture the essence of the great Australian
lifestyle. We have many great memories of fantastic pool parties, long lazy afternoons sitting outside Cafes and playing beach
cricket at the seaside. This wine is designed to compliment all of these situations. The wine is also for those of you who are sick
and tired of the typical over oaked Chardonnays that the world has churned out over the past decade or two, but are still keen
on true Chardonnay characters.
VITICULTURE
The Chardonnay vines are carefully pruned over the winter season to ensure low yields and quality fruit. Supplementary
irrigation and strict canopy management through the summer season enable the fruit to reach a baume of about 13, offering
clean, crisp and ripe flavours in the fruit. It is then machine harvested in the coolest hours of the night and delivered to the
winery as quickly as possible (to ensure there is no spoilage), to assist in retaining the fresh fruit characters displayed in this
wine.
WINEMAKING
The fruit is crushed and chilled to 7 degrees before draining the free run juice off the skins. This juice is settled for 12 hours to
allow small particles of skins to fall to the bottom of the tank. The clear juice is then racked off and fermentation is completed in
temperature controlled stainless steel. Obviously this wine contains no Oak. We bottle the wine soon after fermentation to
ensure that the clean fresh flavours are retained