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[SOLD-OUT] Ten Minutes By Tractor 10X Chardonnay 2015

'...Pitch perfect' - Wine Front 91 Points!
Jancis Robinson 17/20 Points!

Wine Front 91 points!
This is crisp and clean without being too lean. It’s just a very enjoyable drink. It tastes of grapefruit, stonefruit and pear, rubs of oatmeal, fennel and oak-spice as attractive finishing touches. Not too heavy, not too light. A bit of class, but just a bit. Pitch perfect, you could say.”
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, October 2016


Jancis Robinson 17/20 points!
Following heavy rainfalls in the winter of 2014, vintage 2015 growing conditions were exceptional. Mild and consistent temperatures over the summer and a cool and dry autumn produced beautiful fruit, balanced yields and healthy canopies. 'One of our very best vintages.' Grapes hand-harvested in mid March, whole-bunch pressed and the unsettled juice was transferred to 15% new French oak (medium toast; tight/very tight grain; François Frères) barriques. Fermentation by indigenous yeasts preceded partial malolactic fermentation in spring and regular stirring of lees was carried out over a nine-month barrel maturation. Bottled unfined after filtration.
Lightly herbal citrus, some cedar. Very crisp but it has the depth of citrus fruit to balance. Great intensity on the palate and all in harmony even with very high acidity.
Jancis Robinson, November 2016


Our 10X wines are designed as easy drinking examples of what the Mornington Peninsula can produce. They may have been picked from younger vines or at slightly different times to achieve slightly different characteristics and, as a general rule, they see less new oak and spend less time in oak during maturation. The aroma is unmistakably Ten Minutes by Tractor, showing characteristically high-toned notes of citrus and white peach, along with an array of crisp herbal notes and warmer, vanilla tones. There are deeper, fleshier notes too, which emerge after a bit of air and some swirling in the glass. The precision of the aroma’s layering is impressive, akin to peering through a fine latticework window to a garden in full bloom - finesse and abundance all at once. Wines that unfold like this should be drunk slowly and with some attention, and it’s gratifying to see this complexity in a such a young wine. In the mouth, a burst of fresh citrus initially characterises the flavour profile and establishes this wine as one to enjoy immediately. There’s great verve and vitality here, the same sensation one has when biting into fresh fruit, as flavour and acid combine to invigorate the palate. As the line progresses, subtle vanilla and caramel begin to emerge, adding plushness and depth, and cushioning a firm line of acid that drives across the tongue

Ten Minutes By Tractor (Julian Coldrey)

Farming   Sustainably-made  


Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Mornington Pen
Variety:
Wine White - Chardonnay
Size:
750mL

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$30.00

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