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2019 Toolangi Chardonnay

Yarra Valley, VIC

Top value modern Yarra Valley Chardonnay. Elegant and class - great buying at this price!

HIGH SCORE

$25.00

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Wonderfully balanced fruit with concentration of flavour and exceptional natural acidity.

Toolangi Vineyards

About The Wine

The Toolangi Chardonnay is a very good value proposition.

The fruit is grown on the Toolangi Estate vineyard in Dixons Creek - one of the most idealic places in the Yarra Valley to grow premium Chardonnay.

This is a wine that will drink beautifully from day one. It's an elegant style of Chardonnay with enough flesh and toastiness to keep the flavour hounds satisfied.

With a lovely review from Campbell Mattinson, the new look Toolangi looks in the form of its life.

Winemakers Kelly Healey & Kaspar Hermann
Winemakers Kelly Healey & Kaspar Hermann
Yarra Valley, VIC
Additional Info

From the Producer

Tasting Notes:

Opens with some subtle flint, moves into fresh oatmeal and citrus blossom with a little candle wax there too. The palate is juicy with grapefruit, lime and quince. Fine phenolics support a shapely core that is fresh through the finish.

Winemaking Notes:

Fruit is crushed and pressed with juice solids to French oak barriques (10% new) for primary fermentation. Wine is sulphured on lees without malolactic conversion. 10 months on lees in oak.

Viticultural Notes:

Hand-picked 4th and 5th of March 2019
Established in 1995, Toolangi Vineyards is in the Yarra Valley adjoining the Toolangi State Forest. This single site vineyard on fine clay loam produces wines with distinctive personalities, each wine showing a strong sense of place.

This Chardonnay is made from low cropped, hand harvested I10V3 and Mendoza Chardonnay clones from the 18 year old vines on A, B and G blocks.

Optimal conditions for both flowering and fruitset in the vineyards gave well balanced yields with plenty of promise leading into the 2019 harvest. A dry January and February followed, culminating in a relatively compressed vintage, though attention to detail in the vineyards gave winemakers wonderfully balanced fruit with concentration of flavour and exceptional natural acidity.

Blend : Chardonnay (100%)
ABV : 13.5%
Closure : Screw Cap
Drink Until : 2027

Expert Reviews

Critic Reviews

95Points
Halliday Wine Companion

"18yo vines, clones I10V3 and Mendoza, hand-picked, crushed and pressed with juice solids to French puncheons (10% new), no mlf, 10 months on lees. Has unexpected drive and intensity of pink grapefruit flavour." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)

Delivery

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