Heirloom Vineyards Assens Fortalice Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2024 x 6
2022 ASSEN’S FORTALICE ADELAIDE HILLS CHARDONNAY
Heirloom Vineyards was conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking
student caught the eye of a silly old wine judge. A love story ensued inspired
by two vows: To preserve the best of tradition, the old world of wine and
our unique old vineyards and to champion the best clones of each variety
planted in the most appropriate sites embracing the principals of organic
and biodynamic farming. Seven long vintages of trial and error passed before
Heirloom Vineyards could make a wine that was fine enough to pass on to
future generations. That is this wine.
This Heirloom Vineyards Assen’s Fortalice Chardonnay was produced
from our best Adelaide Hills Vineyard near Charleston whose clones and
viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and
winemaking.
HEIRLOOM WINE NOTES
Chardonnay can be a simple sip or a symphony of the senses, a moment of
pleasure or an eternity of contemplation. Only the poet can know, so stop
thinking and surrender.
COLOUR
Pale-straw, luminescent, bright and clean.
AROMA
Nectarine flesh and nectarine kernel, complete with an early morning’s
dewiness about those aromatics. Multitudinous support-act stone fruits
chime in, hinting at their ripe fruit flesh, but all undercut by cooler and keener
apple and citrus notes. Oak’s almond and baked bread bouquet sneak in,
almost undetected.
PALATE
These cooler fruit flavours carry over, adding the cleansing acidity so suited to
the palate’s otherwise more giving stone fruit flavours of peach and apricot;
other fruits ping, too: mandarine, melon and rockmelon. The oak regime adds
just a hint of creaminess, but a mere knife-point in terms of measurement
and weight. The texture is welcoming and appealing, balanced in a cautionary
way by the stoic acidity.
OVERALL
As a young wine, well chilled, serve yourself some cold roast chicken. In five
years time, less chilled, scallops cooked in butter. This is a subtly serious and
fleetingly complete wine with certain demands that you must live up to.
WINEMAKERS Elena Brooks & Alexandra Haselich
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