2021 Fleet 'Glen Forbes' Chardonnay
VARIETAL: Chardonnay
REGION: Gippsland, VIC
WINEMAKER: Lisa & Justin Jenkins
VITICULTURE: Organic/Sustainable
50% Whole bunch pressed to tank for settling, then racked to a neutral puncheon for fermentation; 50% de-stemmed & fermented on skins for 7 days, then pressed into a new Stockinger Puncheon to finish fermentation, full malo for this portion. Lees stirred, then racked prior to bottling.
It’s a deliciously textural wine that offers an array of orchid fruits; preserved lemons, pears & quince with top notes of white flowers, and flinty/wet stone characters. The black sandy soils situated in these cooler parts of South Gippsland give depth, structure and power to this chardonnay.
Bright lemon/straw colour, sea spray/oyster shell, pear & quince with a flinty/mineral core driving the palate. A textural wine, that builds in the glass, grilled hazelnut, with fine-boned acidity weaving throughout.