[SOLD-OUT] Ten Minutes By Tractor McCutcheon Chardonnay 2015

Wine Front 96 points!

“Vineyard planted in 1992. Production of 222 dozen. Wild yeast fermented in 22% new French oak. Almost all of it goes through MLF.

This is a rock. It’s both brilliantly flavoured and impeccably well structured. Quartz, white peach, custard cream, even fennel. Woodsmoke. Grapefruit. As rich as it is racy. There’s crunch and steel, mineral and meal to the finish. It has it all going on. Powerhouse chardonnay, in a good way.”

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, April 2017

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Wine Business Magazine 95 Points!

"Power and vitality hand in hand. Starts with a cavalcade of citrus-fruit, lemon-blossom, ripe-apple, nougat and flint character. The bouquet is so enticing. Drives across the palate in a mineral-chalk-etched course of inwardly concentrated citrus and appley fruit chatacer with licks of oatmeal savouriness intwined. Serious wine.

Mike Bennie, Wine Business Magazine, July 2017

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The McCutcheon Chardonnay is easily the most robust of all the single vineyard Chardonnay releases, with a depth and intensity that marks it apart from the other wines. Easily my favourite of the 2015 wines, with a very convincing depth. One of the few single vineyard Chardonnay releases to have completed malolactic fermentation; this has more richness, more fruit power and a very long finish, the vanilla bean and custard creamy flavour intensity compelling with its length and impact. It’s a real mouthful of a wine, with more layers that unfurl the longer you look. If you need a classic benchmark, then this is the Corton- Charlemagne of the range – a charismatic wine of grandiosity. Best drinking 2017-2027


Andrew Graham, February 2017

  Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Mornington Pen

Variety:

Wine White - Chardonnay

Size:

750mL