2023 Frogmore Creek Chardonnay

Alcohol: 13.5%
ρH: 3.15
Total Acidity: 8.4g/L
Residual sugar: less than 1g/L

Winemakers: John Bown, Alain Rousseau

Toasted and cedar aromas. Some complexity with savoury flavours, minerality with fresh acid. Balanced and delicate

Another wet spring due to La Niña.
No frost in October. After some good spring rain, the weather did not warm up enough at flowering to get a good bunch set.
The bunches were all there but had small berries and they were also underweight.
The increase of the density of the canopy resulted in an increase of workload in the vineyard.
January to March were nice and warm with no extreme allowing the crop to ripen nicely.
Therefore, the quality of the wine is excellent

Variety: 100% Chardonnay, sustainably grown
Region: 100% Coal River Valley
Yield: 10 tonnes per hectare (1.6 – 2.4 tonnes per acre)

De-juiced with only slight pressure. Sent to barrels for fermentation and inoculation. No fining. Fermented at ambient temperature. No Malolactic fermentation. Kept 10 months in barrels then cold stabilised before filtration.