2024 Upper Yarra Chardonnay medium bodied Yarra Cabernet full

medium bodied Yarra Cabernet full of black current fruit and violets

building texture and complexity without losing freshness

The wine was pressed off to 300L French oak hogsheads for maturation

The result is a vibrant

2024 Upper Yarra Chardonnay medium bodied Yarra Cabernet fullHand harvested from the cool LoneStar Creek vineyard in the Upper Yarra, this Chardonnay was picked as the berries transitioned from green to gold moving through the citrus spectrum toward stone fruit. The fruit was whole bunch pressed, with the cloudy juice transferred to mostly 500L French oak barrels for wild fermentation. To preserve the wines precise acid line, malolactic fermentation was intentionally avoided. It rested on lees for 10 months in