2023 Basket Range Wine Hills Chardonnay

93 pts
A fresh, citrusy Adelaide Hills Chardonnay from Sholto Broderick, balancing brightness and texture in his easy, laid-back style.

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Sholto Broderick has a knack for making wines that feel effortless, and this 2023 Hills Chardonnay is a perfect example. The fruit comes from cool, high vineyards in the Adelaide Hills, where slow ripening keeps everything crisp and bright.

Sholto keeps the winemaking simple – hand-picking, wild ferment, a bit of old oak and lees time – just enough to give the wine some texture without covering up the fruit. It’s more about letting the vineyard do the talking than showing off in the winery.

The result is fresh and citrusy with a gentle savoury edge and a hint of creaminess, making it ridiculously easy to drink. It’s the kind of Chardy that feels at home at a long lunch, a picnic, or just cracking a bottle midweek.

93 points - "It has the right pluck and charm to take you on a journey while satisfying your itch for fine chardonnay. Depth, vigour, excitement, drinkability all in the right spots. Quite a bit of honey-nougat in the wine though the coursing push of brine and crushed rock minerality elevates things and pierces the palate. There’s nectarine, white peach, green pear in the mix too. It’s marries the seasoning of the winery impeccably in apt, medium bodied fruit flavours. In all this, ticking many boxes." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Vineyards:
This wine comes from two vineyards within a close proximity of our vineyard and winery.

The Deanery vineyard is situated in Balhannah, 7km east of us. We pick this vineyard first, being in a slightly warmer site. The clones of this chardonnay are i10v1 and Mendoza.

Ali’s vineyard is situated in the heart of the Piccadilly Valley, 8km to the south-west of our vineyard. This vineyard produces fruit with great intensity and acid drive and is a combination of g9v7 and i10v1 clones.

Winemaking:
Each parcel of chardonnay was direct-pressed then cold-settled before racking to French barrique and puncheon barrels (10% new) for fermentation and maturation for 9 months.

Some battonage was used during maturation to help build mid-palate texture.

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country Australia
Region Adelaide Hills
Australian State SA
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 93
Alcohol 12.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Cork

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