2024 Yabby Lake Single Vineyard Chardonnay
Our philosophy is to craft single vineyard wines of great purity and character, reflecting our site and the season in which it was grown. It’s the attention and care in the vineyard that is most critical to allowing that expression.
The 2024 season brought 'La Nina' weather conditions for the fourth year in a row - a fine and early ripening vintage, with low yields and superb quality. With such small yeilds in the 2024 vintage, there is a 6 bottle limit.
Winemaker Notes
Handpicked between 20 – 24 February and whole bunch pressed. The juice was transferred to 500 litre French oak barrels for natural fermentation. A 25% portion of which were new. The wines were aged on lees in oak for a further 10 months, prior to estate bottling in late January 2025.
Tasting Notes
The 2024 vintage was fine and early with low crops, resulting in finely poised wines. The Chardonnay has orchard stone fruit, grapefruit, citrus blossom, a hint of roasted almond and a lovely flinty note underlying. The palate is youthful and intensely concentrated, there is a nice layer of almond meal and cashew nut from the barrel fermentation rounding out the fruit. There are layers of deeply textured and concentrated fruit. White stone fruit and pithy grapefruit weave through a tightly wound and piercingly intense, mineral finish that goes on and on. Cellar for at least five years, the wine will go well past 10 years.