2024 Commune of Buttons Basket Town Chardonnay

Superb lo-fi Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, fresh and precise.

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Description

The Basket Town Chardonnay is the perfect entry-point to sample the stellar style of Adelaide Hills Chardonnay coming out of the Button's cellar at the moment...

It’s a blend of fruit from the Commune of Buttons home block and the Udy’s Vineyard in Piccadilly Valley - both high, cool sites with clay and quartz-threaded soils that give the wine its drive and shape.

Pressed gently and left to ferment naturally in barrel, this Chardonnay spent time resting on lees for extra depth and savouriness. It’s got all the hallmarks of Jasper’s style - texture, balance, and that clean line of acidity that ties everything together.

Expect white peach and lemon curd, a hint of struck match and meal, and that fine, chalky finish that’s become something of a Commune signature. 

A pure expression of modern Adelaide Hills Chardonnay from one of the region's best rising talents.

This year the parcels for Basket Town Chardonnay are from the Udys vineyard in Piccadilly Valley, and the Commune of Buttons Vineyard. The Piccadilly valley sites are red and yellow clays over sandstone and leced with quartz and shist and sit at 450m altitude. The grapes were hand harvested March, each parcel was direct pressed. After settling overnight juice was transferred to barriques where wild fermentation took place, the elevage was for 9 months. The wine is saline and tightly bound. There is excellent texture and mouth feel from slow pressing and great focus and minerality from light extraction.

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country Australia
Region Adelaide Hills
Australian State SA
Feature Natural/Lo-Fi
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Cork

Commune of Buttons

Siblings Jasper and Sophie Button returned home some years ago to help save their family vineyard nestled in the Basket Range of the Adelaide Hills, planted primarily to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay 20 years ago by their mother.

They began restoring the site and transitioning to organic and biodynamic farming, and at some point decided that rather than sell off their prized grapes to others, they’d turn their hand to winemaking.

The wines are made naturally with only minimal sulphur additions and slow, gentle ferments. Jasper's winemaking has taken them to the front of the pack in the lo-fi Australian wine scene. With each release, the wines are more refined and detailed. They are wonderfully pure, unadulterated and as loveable as the family who makes them.

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