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Wine Description
The Story
The 2016 Summers Chardonnay fruit was sourced from the premium cool-climate region of the Adelaide Hills. This is the first vintage of Summers Chardonnay to be 100% sourced from the Adelaide Hills, which is becoming widely regarded as one of the best Chardonnay regions in Australia. The 2016 vintage saw warm and dry conditions during December and January with cooler conditions following, allowing full ripening with rich flavour development.
This is a single-vineyard (90% of the fruit for this wine was sourced from the Short Vineyard, Balhannah) Chardonnay that has been lovingly crafted from top-quality hand-picked fruit, which was chilled, gently whole-bunch pressed and vinified in premium French Oak barrels with a specially selected range of yeast strains. Maturation in oak on full yeast lees with regular battonage aids in the creation of a complex and creamy style of Chardonnay.