SRS Wallcliffe Chardonnay 2024
The 2024 SRS Chardonnay shows lovely lifted fruit together with some delicate savoury notes from solids and wild ferment. Grapefruit, white peach and dried pear give way to barrel ferment and flinty complexities.
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The 2024 SRS Chardonnay shows lovely lifted fruit together with some delicate savoury notes from solids and wild ferment. Grapefruit, white peach and dried pear give way to barrel ferment and flinty complexities. Powerful fruit flavours, barrel ferment and subtle sulphides derived from wild ferment contribute a delicious savoury oyster shell/saline character on the palate, giving the wine greater complexity and overall purity. This modern style ultimately complements many Australian food flavours, particularly seafood. Showing the fruit power of the warm 2024 vintage the 2024 SRS Chardonnay drinks well now and will age beautifully over the short to medium term.
After overnight cold storage the fruit was whole bunch pressed into French oak puncheons before undergoing full wild yeast fermentation. To achieve a portion with high grape solids we rotated the press after filling. The key to successful wild fermentation is the use of high turbidity juices, minimal sulphur dioxide, low potential alcohols and juices with good nutrient content. The SRS Chardonnay was barrel fermented in 33% new French puncheons and then aged for 10 months. The decision was made to not employ MLF or lees stirring as the fruit power and texture were already in great balance.
- Vintage - 2024
- Alcohol - 13.4
- Cellaring - Drink now, great as an aperitif.