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Frankland Estate Chardonnay 2022

$29.99

100% organic, elegant Chardonnay from WA.

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Description

Award winning family owned and operated boutique winery Frankland Estate is located in Frankland River, the coolest and most isolated wine-growing region in Western Australia.  Warm days, cool nights (maritime influenced by the proximity to the Great Southern Ocean – means milder summers and winters) optimum ripening conditions, sustainable organic practices and a pristine pollution free environment are all contributing factors to the fine wines it produces.

Frankland Estate Chardonnay is renowned for its millerandage or ‘hen and chicken’ combination of large and small berries in the same bunch. This results in low yields, especially where the proportion of small berries is high and, typically, produces highly concentrated flavours.

Notes from the winery: Organically grown fruit for this wine was sourced from three different locations on our Isolation Ridge vineyard at Frankland Estate. The vineyard is planted on undulating north- and east-facing slopes and has duplex soils of ironstone gravel and loam over a clay sub soil. The vines are all from the low-yielding (Mendoza) clone renowned for its “hen and chicken” combination of large and small berries in the same bunch. This results in highly concentrated fruit flavours. The vine canopy is trained on a combination of vertical shoot and Scott Henry trellis to allow increased air circulation.

The fruit is lightly pressed into stainless-steel tanks and allowed to settle for 24 hours. The juice is then racked off its heavy lees to 500-litre French puncheons (25% new oak) for wild-yeast fermentation. Some barrel stirring through fermentation and post fermentation occurs to give a wine with complexity and individuality. The wine was transferred out of barrel after 10 months on lees before being bottled.
It has a complex fruit profile of nectarine, spice, subtle almond and light toasty nuances layered with yellow florals of calendula and marjoram. Textural and creamy with delicacy upfront which carries through the length of the palate and is balanced by a mouth-watering, playful acidity. Lemon, mandarin and nectarines give some beautiful fruit sweetness and weight to the midpalate A light touch of new oak lends the wine lovely length and focus, elegant and gentle in equal measure.”

Another fine growing season in the West..

91 points, Jane Faulkner for Halliday Wine Companion “Light citrus flavours ebb and flow, creamy lees lift the palate and soft acidity guides it to a fresh finish. Not overly complex but lovely.”

RRP $35  Our Price $29.99

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Additional information

Producer

Frankland Estate

Region or Country

Australia, Frankland River, Western Australia

Variety

Chardonnay

Vintage

2021

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