Geoff Weaver Chardonnay 2021 (6 Bottles) Adelaide Hills

$284.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Assessment: A wine of excellent depth of flavour. Although lovely in its youth it needs time to show its best attributes. Stelvin will ensure the wine remains fresh and lively for many years.

Aroma: Fresh, fine, complex and understated with subtle cream, nuts and pear overtones.

Colour: Light straw with green notes.

Palate: Crisp and tight with a supple mid palate with drying savoury faint textural edge at the finish. Fresh and delicate with a generous mid palate. Lovey fine acid finish.

Oak maturation: 12 months in French oak barriques. All from forests in the centre of France and Vosges. Half new oak and half second use.

Winemaking: Grapes were picked into crates and pre chilled fruit to below 5 deg C for whole bunch pressing. Juice was settled and racked to barrels with light solids for fermentation. All barrels were left on lees for 12 months and innoculated for malolactic ferment.

Vintage:
Crop levels of 0.8kg/vine were similar to 2019 and well below our long term average. Our old vines don’t yield much but the compensation is flavour which they have in abundance. It was another early ripening year partly caused by the very low crop load. Full flavour development . Hand picking occurred in cool weather of the 16th of March which is 11 days earlier than our long term average pick date. Heat degree day summation for the year was 1160; below our long term average of 1270 Heat Degree Days (HDD). Temperatures over summer and post veraison (3rd Feb) were mercifully mild. Post veraison is the crucial period for flavour development and acid retention. Our vines are now 38 years old and show the benefits of maturity with modest vigour, low crops and an extensive root system and are able to sail through hot weather with no negative effect. The growing season was dry with 197mm of rain Oct to March slightly below our long term average of 229 mm. Disease pressure was consequently low and ripe healthy grapes harvested. There was no rain near harvest.

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Description

Geoff Weaver Wines is a family-owned wine business, established in 1982, and run by the former Hardys chief winemaker Geoff Weaver. One simple thought drives their winemaking; grow grapes of excellence in a site carefully chosen to suit the variety. The Lenswood region in general, and their site in particular, is beautifully suited to make wines of power and finesse with its cool, even temperature spectrum which allows full flavour development combined with high retained acid levels crucial to the making of fine savoury table wines.

Our vineyard lies high – about 500 to 550 metres above sea level – in the Adelaide Hills near Lenswood in South Australia.

Vines on our site grow in ancient soils with low natural fertility and ample cold air drainage, ensuring their flavour-producing metabolism is not restricted. With average rainfall of 1134mm, irrigation is rarely required and the vines have a steady but restricted water supply to nourish them.

Canopy lifting is used to help light reach the grapes. Hand pruning allows close control of crop level and foliage density, crucial in cool vineyard areas. All efforts are directed to cultivating fine flavour in the grapes. Each season brings further maturity to the vines and continued refinement of our methods.

Our wines are known for their fine, delicate flavours. Crisp and nuanced, they’ve received acclaim including multiple inclusions in the James Halliday top 100. We are a five red star winery, Halliday’s highest accolade. Fully ripe grapes are hand-picked, with low yields and consistently high quality.

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CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.