Cullen Kevin John Chardonnay 2023 13.5% 750ml

TASTING NOTES

APPEARANCE

Straw.

AROMA

White flower, orange blossom, peach, nectarine, vanilla, curry leaf, dried pear, grapefruit.

PALATE

Tightly bound fruit with phenolic tension at front sliding through to peach, nectarine, grapefruit flavours. Fantastic fruit power and length and a firm, clean finish.

VINIFICATION

Hand harvested, whole bunch basket pressed. Fermented in concrete egg, amphorae and biodynamic puncheons. Eight months maturation in biodynamic oak puncheons of which 80% were new, bottled without fining or filtration. Made from 100% dry farmed biodynamically certified Wente/Gin Gin clone planted on their 1976-1988. Yield 1.7 tons per hectare.

FOOD MATCHING

White fish, crayfish, prawns, herring.

CELLARING POTENTIAL

Drink now or in 20 years.

Winemaker’s Notes
This wine is harvested in Kevin Johns 100th birth year. Harvested from 3 separate Wente clone chardonnay blocks, planted in 1976 and 1988, on their own roots, yielding 1.8 tonnes per hectare.

Crunchy vibrant mineral acidity which keeps the flavours, lingering on and on with a back palate of lemon sherbet kicking in to enliven the experience. Dried pear, orange blossom, balance and poise, what a great symphony of flavours coming together all at once on the taste buds.

Hand Harvested around the biodynamic calendar over 8 different harvest times from the 3rd to the 21st February. The fermentation took place in 50% new biodynamic puncheons, where it was left to mature for a further 6 months. Battonage during fermentation and no fining filtration or cold stabilisation to bottle.