[SOLD-OUT] Bondar Wines Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2016

Wine Front 92 Points!
“Adelaide Hills chardonnay grown at 400 metres. Fermented wild. Matured in French oak, 20% new, for nine months prior to bottling. Some malo, some not.

It’s light-ish in some ways but it’s ever-so-attractive. Lemon, nectarine and pear flavours float across the tongue, the texture just-so, the acidity neatly contained within the fruit and yet offering plenty of refreshment. It looks bright in the glass and feels bright in the mouth. It’s still building, still findings its way in the world, but for length, balance and mouthfeel it has it going on.”
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, January 2017

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Sourced from a single vineyard in Echiunga in the Adelaide Hills, this wine is all about the vineyard really, Bernard (Dijon) clone which is packed full of flavour, nurtured through to bottle with our only influence to shape that flavour and add complexity with oak and balancing structure and acidity. Hand-picked and lightly pressed straight to barrel sans sulphur, the juice was allowed to ferment naturally. Matured in barrel (about 20% new) for about nine months, a portion of the barrels were allowed to go through malolactic fermentation. A serious Chardonnay in terms of complexity and finesse, yet eminently drinkable as a young wine.200 dozen bottles made. 

Bondar

  Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Adelaide Hills

Variety:

Wine White - Chardonnay

Size:

750mL