Bird On A Wire Wines 2018 Chardonnay (6 Bottles) Healesville

by Fine Wine Cellars

$274.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

This 2018 Bird On A Wire Chardonnay has a lovely richness of classic chardonnay flavours, woven together with beautiful fine acid and subtle phenolics.

It has depth and elegance, reflecting classic Yarra Valley chardonnay sensibilities. It’s also versatile, vibrant and perfect for classy dishes with intricate flavours.

You can enjoy a range of different foods with this wine, such as creamy shellfish, grilled tuna steaks, new potatoes in fresh herbs or some of those delectable creamy cows milk cheeses made famous by the French.

Open this for a wonderful dinner at home with people you love to share good things with. You won’t regret sharing this lovely 2017 Bird On A Wire Chardonnay, typical of a great Yarra Valley vintage.

Wine Reviews

95/100 – It’s from the Willowlake vineyard in the Upper Yarra and it’s in a beautiful drinking place. It has flesh and flavour, excellent thrust and the length to match. Chalk, honeysuckle and loads of stone fruit. The press release suggests barbecued scallops as an accompaniment; it sounds terrific. Lovely wine.
– Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion, 9 July 2020

18.5/20 – Yellow stonefruit, melon flesh, grapefruit and lemon pith/flesh, jasmine florals and a saline briny undertone. Pleasant creamy notes from the MLF and light cracker biscuit add to the depth. Just medium bodied. Spicy oak influences with an elegant, creamy mid palate giving way to puckering acidity, extending the dry, textural finish. Balanced and classy.
– Regan Drew, Vinonotebook, 6 June 2020

96/100 – Immaculate. This would be served as the arrival drink at the gates of Chardonnay heaven to get you in the mood. Sublime!
– Steve Leszczynski, QWine, 22 June 2020

94/100 – Straw-yellow in colour, it weaves white peach, grapefruit, matchstick and woodsmoke characters together into a restrained, complex whole. It’s rather austere, with a dry palate of appealing chalky savouriness, yet its intensity and presence is such that a bottle is empty before you realise it.
– Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Real Review, 26 June 2020

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Caroline Mooney, Owner and Winemaker

It was the year 2000, when I travelled to South Australia to do my first vintage with the Hardy’s Tintara team in McLaren Vale.

This would test my resolve, sharpen my sense of calling, and set my course on a way forward.

Following this first vintage, I enrolled at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga to study Wine Science.

Inspired and up for the challenge, I returned to the Yarra Valley and took up a cellar hand position with the Yering Station winemaking team led by Tom Carson, working my way up to Assistant Winemaker by 2004 and Winemaker in 2007.

In 2006, I travelled to Hermitage in France’s Rhône Valley to work at one of the most highly regarded and respected producers, Domaine Jean Louis Chave.

This time in Hermitage inspired me to take a new direction. So in 2008, I left Yering Station to pursue my own winemaking goals with Bird On A Wire Wines.

Raised in the Yarra Valley by Leo and Mary Mooney of the Yarra Valley Dairy, there’s not much I don’t know about this region, its seasons, its topography, the captivating vistas, the colourful personalities and the extraordinary winescape of the upper and lower reaches of the valley – all of these factors make this a place I love to call home.

I have been actively involved in the local wine industry as a founding member of Yarra Valley Wine Women, contributor to the Yarra Valley Wine Growers Association and I continually work on improving my knowledge and palate through research and wine judging at national, metropolitan and regional wine shows.

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