**Small production. Only 6 per customer**
"The 2023 SRH Chardonnay is textural and taut; it is bound in phenolics at this point, but clearly superb. The length of flavor shows this. The complexity shows this. It's a hugely impressive wine that speaks of white peach, green apples, green olive brine, white strawberries and white pepper. It's salty and a little chewy. This will be a seriously great wine—give it time. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap." - Wine Advocate
"The intensity of flavour here is significant. This is a rocket of a wine. Grapefruit, lime, lemon curd, sweet peach, tinned pear and pineapple characters come wrapped in smoky-sweet cedarwood. Acidity, barley-and-lemon-drenched, is prominent too, in keeping with the power of the fruit. It needs time for certain, but this is quite a wine." - Wine Front
"The 2023 SRH Chardonnay offers vibrant and rich aromas of stone fruit, various citrus, cream filled pastry and buttered popcorn with hints of flint and well integrated oak flavours. The flavours are intense but very pure and balanced, with a an array of fruit aromas, yeasty dough characters, chalk, oak spice and smoke. This is an outstanding release and without a doubt, one of the best SRH to date.
SRH is from a distinctive 12 row selection of our oldest Chardonnay vines at Olive Tree Hill vineyard planted in 1976. Named for Bannockburn founder and pioneer in the region, Stuart Reginald Hooper, this vineyard is responsible for some of our finest and most concentrated Chardonnay wines.
Handpicked parcels of fruit were whole bunch pressed, settled over night, and racked to barrels for a wild yeast fermentation in French oak hogsheads; approximately 30% was new oak. Malolactic fermentation occurred on 70% of the blend, with the remainder blocked. The wine was left on lees unstirred for 10 months prior to blending and bottling." - Bannockburn
Vegan-friendly
Qualifies for 10% discount in a straight dozen
