2022 AttWoods Glenlyon Chardonnay, Macedon Ranges

Mid yellow colour with a forward, buttered-toast, creamy lees, open-knit bouquet with a little dried peel, the palate soft and round, medium bodied and balanced but it's a more Burgundy-like, heavily worked style of chardonnay. 26 JAN 2024 Drink 2024–2030

91 points Huon Hooke therealreview.com

Winemaker Note 

The Glenlyon Chardonnay is hand harvested in early autumn from our 25yo vineyard in Macedon. The fruit is handpicked and whole bunch pressed. The juice is transferred to French barriques for fermentation of which one third are new. We use Sirugue barrels for the chardonnay, a mixture of Cuvee Chardonnay and Super Nuits. Fermentation is carried out using wild yeast and very little batonnage. Due to the cold climate fermentation can take a while (sometime into winter) to complete. The wines shut down over winter and natural MLF occurs in the following spring. Once MLF is through the wines are then sulfured (50ppm).

The wine spends 18 months in oak before being racked to tank where it will spend a further 6 months before being bottled.