[SOLD-OUT] Bindi Kostas Rind Chardonnay 2016

Wine Front 94 points!

“Bindi hasn’t put a step wrong in its dual-generation existence, and continues on a righteous path of unswerving attention to vineyard, gentle application of winemaking, great thought in every aspect of wine-vine life. Michael Dhillon would have to be one of the youngest professorial wine thinkers going around. Bindi’s legend and legacy is well on its way, as we know. Here’s another release to admire over time.

A nice mesh of lemon lime, floral notes, peanut brittle, ginger in the bouquet. All understated, all good. Palate is light and juicy, bright, crisp, shows some good fruitiness, a touch of nutty savouriness, a barely there saline character. Fine, delicious, great expression here. Layering in so much understated complexity and character. ‘Delicious’ is another message, despite the rest of the complexity here, and a fine message it is.”

Mike Bennie, Wine Front, October 2017

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As is usual, the juice goes to barrel straight from the press tray, with no additions of yeast, nutrients or enzymes. Once the juice is in barrel a small amount of sulphur is added and then we wait, usually about five days, for the fermentation to begin. The wine spent 11 months on yeast lees in French barrels, of which 25% were new, before bottling.

Following the marvelous 2015 Kostas is quite a challenge for the 2016 wine and happily it has risen to the task. As always, here there is a lot of fragrance of lemon and pithy grapefruit lifted by white flowers and orange blossom. The year on all solids and lees has added mealy complexity and a gentle savoury restraint. The palate is mouth filling, intense in acidity, creamy, flowing, relatively rich and very long. There is a certain chalkiness and tension in the wine that weaves its was through the back palate and sits inside the harmonious finish. Another three years will be of great benefit in delivering added complexity and texture.


Bindi

  Organic   Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Macedon Ranges

Variety:

Wine White - Chardonnay

Size:

750mL