Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French puncheons and barriques (10% new), matured for 9 months. A high quality chardonnay with an intense varietal mix of grapefruit and white peach, oak in the back pocket.
95 point James Halliday winecompanion.com.au 1 August 2020
It’s safe to say the Peter Dredge has already surpassed the high expectations that greeted his arrival at Meadowbank, in 2016. This energetic and chiselled ’18 Chardonnay will only further this record. The fruit comes from 30-year-old estate vines rooted in the Derwent Valley's loose sand and sandstone overlying dark brown, coffee rock, rich in iron oxides. It's what our gum-booted winegrower friends might call “quality dirt”.
Meadowbank's 30-year-old Chardonnay vines are rooted in the Derwent Valley's loose sand and sandstone, which overlays dark brown, coffee rock, rich in iron oxides. It's what our gum-booted winegrower friends might call "quality dirt".
The 2019 was hand-picked and whole-cluster pressed directly to eight French barriques (only one was new). The wine underwent partial malo and spent the following nine months in barrel on lees. Bottled without fining or filtration, the personality is driven by mouth-watering, punchy, cool-climate acidity, while the first-rate winemaking brings out some layered seduction. All class