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Nestled in the Margaret River hills is Victory Point Vineyard, the source of the beautiful fruit for the first Chardonnay from Duke’s Vineyard.
Four clones grown in gravelly clay loams were hand-picked, whole bunch pressed cold, wild yeast barrel fermented in French barriques and hogsheads (35% new) and sat on lees for 10 months before blending and bottling.
The resulting wine is a focused, elegant expression of flint and mineral with great generosity and textural creaminess.
WHITE PEACH • RAW CASHEW • WET GRANITE
96 points, The Real Review
Light-medium yellow and bright in the glass; intense grapefruit, sweet-herb and lemon-balm aromas overlaid by a nutty, peanut brittle trace from oak-maturation. The wine remains delicate, reserved and refined in the mouth, with excellent line and length. Intense, concentrated lemon/citrus fruit. An impressive young chardonnay that will certainly age superbly. A stunner.
95 points, Wine Pilot
This is a very fine and elegant style of Chardonnay. It’s certainly tighter than the M2 but it also has power. It’s also a departure for Dukes but not for Cane who has worked with this style before. It’s made from a number of different clones with a chalky minerality taking the palate through to a very long finish. I particularly like the crunchy slightly juicy character which brings life and energy to the palate and complements the lemon curd and brioche flavours. The 10 months in oak, of which 33% was new, is perfectly balanced with the fruit and crisp minerally acidity.
94 points, Halliday Wine Companion
From Victory Point vineyard, Margaret River. The first release of this wine. Sees wild yeast ferment and maturation in 35% new French oak. Graceful and yet powerful. Scents of sea spray, cinnamon, Pink Lady apple, ginger and shortbread. The palate is deeply flavoured but quite lithe, almost minerally with a spread of crackling, saline acidity. Flavours tend to green apple, ginger, cinnamon, as of the bouquet, with faint flinty elements in tow. Good extension in the palate too. Fine wine.
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