2022 Oakridge Wines 864 Single Block Release Drive Block Funder & Diamond Vineyard Chardonnay

• Producer: Oakridge
• Varietal: Chardonnay
• Region: Yarra Valley
• Net volume: 750ml
• Vintage: 2022

Light straw with green hues. Fresh and vibrant. Complex and intense. Orchard fruit - peach and nectarine, dried apricot and pear, light herbal nuance and flint all laced together with notes of cordite and burnt match. The palate is ripe, round, expressive and dense. Concentrated flavours that are richly mouth filling, without any flabbiness or lack of line. The citric laced acidity, the toothsome river stone texture carrying the flavours and balancing the structure to a crescendo that lasts minutes. One of the very good 864s.

A long, late and cool growing season with very low crops delivering wines with exceptional flavour, freshness and balance. Flowering occurred in late October, fruit set in December, and harvest on March 4th at 12.4° Baumé.

All grapes hand harvested and sorted prior to whole bunch pressing directly to French oak puncheons for natural fermentation. 20% of the barrels were new. Post-fermentation, the wine was matured on its fermentation lees for 10 months in barrel followed by a further six months on lees in tank prior to bottling after a single filtration.

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