Tasting note
Wild-ferment Chardonnay with the rich texture of double cream restrained by a fine minerality, overflowing with melon and peach and scented with long-lasting notes of vanilla.
Viticulture
Strathbogie Ranges, home to Fowles Wine, boasts ancient granite boulders shaping sandy loam soil. Harsh but perfect for intense grapes. Cool climate, gentle slopes, and sunny summers create the ideal wine region. This wine hails from our Upton Run vineyard, with sandy/loam soil, north-west aspect, and elevation at 473m.
Vinification
Crushed grapes to minimize phenolic extraction. Wines fermented between 13 and 23 C with half wild fermentation. Fermented and aged in 30% new and 70% French oak casks (Hogheads, Puncheons, etc.) with lees stirring. Small malolactic.
Food Match
Served perfectly alongside poached wild salmon with hollandaise sauce.