Tolpuddle Coal River Valley Chardonnay 2024
Wine Details
- White - Dry
- Fine wine
Australia- Pale Gold
- Chardonnay
- 9.75 Units
- Vegan
- 13% ABV
- 750 ml
- Vegetarian
- 31 December 2040
Flavour Profile
There’s huge praise for this exceptional Chardonnay “that you could be forgiven in thinking you were in the grands climats of Burgundy when tasting” wrote wine expert James Suckling, naming it his Australian Wine of the Year. Halliday Wine Companion is equally effusive, “builds like a crescendo before releasing, finishing long and true. It’s a stunner”.
All the grapes are handpicked from their cool, Coal Valley Tolpuddle vineyard, whole bunch pressed (ie with stalks) and fermented in French oak barrels, where the wine rests for another 10 months on its lees, with gentle stirring.
This masterpiece is from Michael Hill-Smith MW and Martin Shaw’s 20-hectare Tolpuddle vineyard estate which they purchased from Tony Jordan in 2012. This was post “a spontaneous road trip, some timely advice from mates and a healthy dose of serendipity” as Michael was keen to admit. The vines were planted in 1988 and at 38 years old, are producing great fruit. Add in the excellent cold and dry conditions of Tasmania and their exceptional winemaking skills, and you can understand the demand for this wine. On allocation only, this is a wine to cellar if you can resist opening it. Tension, length, precision, texture ... it’s all there. Magnificent.
There’s huge praise for this exceptional Chardonnay “that you could be forgiven in thinking you were in the grands climats of Burgundy when tasting” wrote wine expert James Suckling, naming it his Australian Wine of the Year. Halliday Wine Companion is equally effusive, “builds like a crescendo before releasing, finishing long and true. It’s a stunner”.
All the grapes are handpicked from their cool, Coal Valley Tolpuddle vineyard, whole bunch pressed (ie with stalks) and fermented in French oak barrels, where the wine rests for another 10 months on its lees, with gentle stirring.
This masterpiece is from Michael Hill-Smith MW and Martin Shaw’s 20-hectare Tolpuddle vineyard estate which they purchased from Tony Jordan in 2012. This was post “a spontaneous road trip, some timely advice from mates and a healthy dose of serendipity” as Michael was keen to admit. The vines were planted in 1988 and at 38 years old, are producing great fruit. Add in the excellent cold and dry conditions of Tasmania and their exceptional winemaking skills, and you can understand the demand for this wine. On allocation only, this is a wine to cellar if you can resist opening it. Tension, length, precision, texture ... it’s all there. Magnificent.
