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Wine Specs

Vintage

2020

Varietal

Chardonnay

Acid

6.6

3.28

2020 Keepers of the Flame Winemakers Tasting Notes

2020 Keepers of the Flame

Perhaps the best thing to come out of 2020. This was a challenging vintage with drought, bushfires and then Covid testing our resilience. However, this superb parcel of fruit from our Cottage vineyard is a shining light, highlighting the exemplary quality that the new 548 chardonnay clone produces from this iconic Hunter Valley vineyard.

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TASTING NOTE:

Colour: Pale straw with green hues

Nose: Brioche, hints of white citrus flowers, mineral and white nectarine. Touch of oak on the nose showing as cinnamon and nutmeg

Palate: Fully ripe grapefruit with textural minerality combined with white peach and charred citrus rind. Oak characters coming through but in the back palate

WINEMAKING:

This was the last Chardonnay fruit to be picked and was machine harvested in the early hours of the morning (due to inability to get picking crews due to COVID). Made from 100% free-run juice, full solids and a natural ferment. It was fermented and matured in 100% new French oak being both barriques and a component in a puncheon.

Watch Jerome's tasting note in this short video (3m40s watch time).

2020 Keepers of the Flame

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