What’s Old Is New Again.
Meet the 98pt Chardonnay of your dreams. Your old-school dreams. Butter, caramel oak & peach burst from the glass in the 2018 Heggies Eden Valley Chardonnay. A surefire classic, from a grand old name.
Now here’s a wine that’s been to the school that matters: The all-important Old-School. Where Chardonnay was for the bold. The powerful. The decadent. Oak, warmth and generosity are as critical to the winemaking as the High Eden Valley fruit itself. If this feels like what true Chardonnay is meant to taste like, the Heggies has nailed the assignment.
In the reach of modern winemaking, it’s also an art form that seems lost to the new guard. Yet Heggies, the pantheon of Eden Valley nostalgia is here to help us all reminisce, and remind us quietly of the kind of wines that put Australian Chardonna on the map in the first place.
One taste, and it’s easy to see why the judges at Wine State magazine let loose with a near-perfect 98pt score. A score we might add that’s usually reserved for the meagre allocated and not-so-humbly priced flagships.
It’s that unmistakable nose that draws you in. Lemon balm, butter, white peach, oatmeal, caramel Tarte-Tatin. A hit-list of aromas from an olden time Chardonnay playlist. It’s got glorious oak, full and ripe, yet never hot. It’s not shy, and we like that.
If you’ve craved for something to placate the Mountadam’s, Richmond Grove’s or Scarborough Chardonnay’s of old, then this Heggies Eden Valley Chardonnay is yours to keep.
Fermented and matured for 11 months in new French oak barriques (28%), one year old French oak barriques (25%), balanced in older French oak barriques.
