2024 Commune of Buttons Piccadilly Chardonnay

A super small bottling of Chardonnay from the cooler Piccadilly Valley - one of our favourite Chardonnays ever from Jasper Button.

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The Piccadilly Valley is sacred ground for Chardonnay in the Adelaide Hills and Jasper Button knows how to make it sing. His 2024 release comes from two small, high-altitude vineyards sitting between 450 and 500 metres: the Eurilla site, leased by Jasper, and one of the oldest Chardonnay plantings in Piccadilly. 

The fruit was handpicked in March, whole-bunch pressed to just 55% extraction, then settled overnight before wild fermentation in old barrels. It spent a year on lees and another six months in stainless steel before bottling, building both texture and complexity.

This is a Chardonnay that strikes that perfect balance between focus and flavour - concentrated yellow stone fruit, honeysuckle and a touch of straw and brioche from its time on lees. There’s real energy and precision here, framed by that long, mineral acid line that defines the Piccadilly Valley.

We love this wine because it shows Jasper's Chardonnay chops at their best. It’s one of the best value premium Chardonnays in South Australia if you ask us.

The Piccadilly valley is a special place for growing grapes and making chardonnay. Each parcel has its own micro climate and character, but the valley itself makes wines of detail and precision with cool evenings and high rainfall.

We have made a wine here from two separate sites one from the valley floor and the other at the highest southern point. We have very nicely captured the essence of the 2024 vintage in the Piccadilly Chardonnay, which saw warm dry conditions and cool nights seen throughout the ripening period. The wine is powerful and driven with very nice ripe acidity and a generous mid pallet.

Prolonged elevage of 18 months on lees has mellowed the primary fruits of pears and stone fruits and interlaced them with the inherent minerality of the piccadilly valley soils and lingering natural acidity.

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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