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Wine Description
The Story
Since purchasing the vineyard in 2012, significant investments have been made to further enhance the site. It had always shown potential for a single site wine and in 2014 a small amount was selected for our first 'Lenswood Vineyard' Chardonnay.
Sourced exclusively from Shaw + Smith's Lenswood property. Planted in 1999, the vineyard has east and west facing aspects and reaches 500 meters above sea level. The soil is brown loam over clay wit...
Vintage 2020
The 2020 wine vintage in Australia was a highly challenging, historically small, but remarkably high-quality year that was heavily shaped by extreme environmental events. The growing season was defined by a severe multi-year drought, record-breaking summer heatwaves, and catastrophic bushfires that caused severe smoke taint across vulnerable pockets of regions like the Hunter Valley and the Adelaide Hills. Consequently, total national grape yi...