2016 Frogmore Creek Chardonnay, Tasmania

Frogmore Creek’s winemaking approach has been to "let the fruit do the talking". Our wines are fruit-driven with only enough additional intervention, oak particularly, to provide subtle complexity and enhancement to the basic fruit flavours. Generally, we do not promote malolactic fermentation in our white wines, which means that the fruit flavours are prominent and acidity remains relatively high. Both these factors mean that the wines are clean, fresh and tight in structure. We believe that such wines go very well with food and age elegantly over a long period. Our reds are made with conventional hand plunging in small batches or pumping over in larger quantities. Pressings are important to final wine structure and are always included. Similarly to the whites, our reds are fruit driven with French oak treatment intended to be just sufficient to provide balance and complexity.