2021 Bass Phillip Premium Chardonnay

Legendary Chardonnay, one of Bass Phillip's greatest wines. A layered, full-bodied masterpiece.

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Bass Phillip is a great Australian Chardonnay producer, whose white wines have historically been overshadowed by their Pinots. The Premium Chardonnay is among the country's classiest and most cellarworthy example.

The fruit source is always a small parcel of the original Bass Phillip vineyard planted in 1979, farmed organically and biodynamically. There is huge old-vine fruit concentration with rich peach, melon and some lively citrus.

There is layer after layer of integrated spice, oak, and some nutty/ buttery elements that will fuse further in the years to come. An exceptional wine.

Grapes were whole bunch pressed directly to barrel
for a natural fermentation in a temperature controlled
environment. A 30 ppm SO2 addition to each barrel.
We chose extra tight grain oak barrels with a light toast,
46% were new barrels for the Premium Chardonnay
blend. Towards the end of fermentation, barrels
were topped up and over the course of time given an
occasional stir with topping up every week. All barrels
underwent malo-lactic before adding a small amount of
SO2. Wine stayed in barrel for 14 months. The Premium
is a selection of our finest barrels from the Leongatha
vineyard and all barrels from Leongatha South. The
barrels are gently gravity decanted off the settled lees
via a tap inserted near the bottom of the headboard of
the barrel to tank. No fining of any sort, but coarsely
filtered to bottle in July 2022.

96 Points - "While there are layers and layers of flavour within, there’s also a fine line of acidity keeping this not so much tight but reined in. There seems to be more detail and focus of late, even the colour is a glorious gleaming pale straw. Flavours of stone fruit, ginger spice, grapefruit and pith and fluffy creamy lees with cedary/spicy oak." - Jane Faulker (Halliday Wine Companion)

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