[SOLD-OUT] Bannockburn SRH Chardonnay 2019

 

** Extremely Limited. Only 3 per customer **

 

"Fabulous release. It feels rich and powerful from the outset and yet the flavours just soar on and on. It’s a wine of real presence. Stonefruit, cream, quartz, smoky oak and crushed fennel. This delivers in spades. It’s a super wine." - Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front

 

“Ripe peaches and maple-smoked bacon aromas. The palate opens with ripe pineapple fruit then morphs towards smoky bacon and honey-roasted nuts through the middle. Great acidity offers a lightness to the mouth-feel, which accentuates the freshness to balance the serious power packed in. Goes incredibly long and lingers with a savoury-smoky note that I could ponder for hours. Will cellar well for many years.” - Real Review

 

"The S.R.H. is sourced from just 12 rows of 45-plus-year-old low-yielding, clone P58 Chardonnay vines in the Olive Tree Hill vineyard. These vines have roots well embedded in the ancient marine sediments that form the bedrock in this area. They seem to suck the minerality right out of their subsoil and deliver a spine-tingling wash of salinity to support the intense flavour and texture for which this benchmark Chardonnay is well known. The wine is named in recognition of Bannockburn’s founder, Stuart Reginald Hooper.

The 2019 is surely a defining release. Fresh, nervy and powerful, it shows exemplary finesse alongside impressive, leading acidity and chewy phenolics. It’s driven and complex with a multi-dimensional finish, a head turning and wholly impressive wine.

2019 is without a doubt one of the best bottlings of S.R.H. to ever bear the name.” - Bannockburn

 

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Geelong

Variety:

Wine White - Chardonnay

Size:

750mL