The Story
Beechworth is simply one of Australia’s finest regions for Chardonnay. The Indigo Vineyard has different soils, aspect, clones and vine age.
Wine Information
A little fuller in colour than previous vintages showing the impacts of the low yield, still has a lovely pale yellow/green colour. Fermented in 100% French oak, mostly 500L puncheons, ripe grapefruit lift with bran meal and toast notes from the wild ferment and extended lees contact. The crisp acidity and balanced alcohol make for quite a zesty mouth feel. Grapefruit pith and rock melon carry through for a long finish.
Above-average rainf...
Vintage 2023
The 2023 vintage is widely reported to have been the most difficult and challenging in at least the past 20 years. A third La Niña event produced the wettest year since 2011 and the ninth wettest on record since 1900 for Australia in 2022, with rainfall totals 26 per cent above the 1961–1990 average. It was also Australia’s coolest
year since 2012, although average temperatures were 0.5 degrees C warmer than the 1961–1990 average. Persiste...