2018 Lethbridge Estate Chardonnay Biodynamic, Geelong

Complex, intense flavours - citrus, hazelnut, and gun flint. Mineral flavours mingle with the firm structure and creamy texture on the palate.

The fruit for this wine comes from the Suma Park Vineyard on the Bellarine Peninsula. The hand-picked fruit was whole bunch pressed into 100% new French oak puncheons for fermentation and MLF by indigenous yeast on full solids. The wine components were then matured in 30% new French oak barrels on gross lees for a further 11 months prior to blending and bottling.

Lethbridge Wines grew from a friendship between Ray Nadeson, Maree Collis and Adrian Thomas.  Back in the mid 1990’s we were busy establishing careers in science and medicine and shared a love of great wine which ultimately became quite an obsession. The afternoons sipping Burgundies were replaced by weekends searching for the perfect vineyard site and then by afternoons digging holes and planting vines. For two of us (Maree and Ray) the passion for wine drove us to a tree change, and in 2003 after 7 years of balancing careers in science and running a vineyard and winery, we made Lethbridge Wines our reison d'etre.