Heirloom Winery Assen’s Fortalice Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2022-23 (6 Bottles) Adelaide Hills
$284.00 GST Included
AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED
This Heirloom Vineyards Assen’s Fortalice Adelaide Hills Chardonnay was produced from a single Adelaide Hills Vineyard near Charleston whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. This wine is a barrel selection of the very best.
COLOUR
Pale-straw, luminescent, bright and clean.
AROMA
Nectarine flesh and nectarine kernel, complete with an early morning’s dewiness about those aromatics. Multitudinous support-act stone fruits chime in, hinting at their ripe fruit flesh, but all undercut by cooler and keener apple and citrus notes. Oak’s almond and baked bread bouquet sneak in, almost undetected.
PALATE
These cooler fruit flavours carry over, adding the cleansing acidity so suited to the palate’s otherwise more giving stone fruit flavours of peach and apricot; other fruits ping, too: mandarine, melon and rockmelon. The oak regime adds just a hint of creaminess, but a mere knife-point in terms of measurement and weight. The texture is welcoming and appealing, balanced in a cautionary way by the stoic acidity.
AWARDS
China Wine & Spirits Awards 2023- Double Gold
International Wine Challenge -UK 2023 Silver Medal
2023 Royal Adelaide Wine show – Silver 92 Pts
2023 Decanter World Wine Awards – Silver 90 Points
The Real Review, Huon Hooke (28th March 2023) – 90 Points, Silver
2023 AWC Vienna International Wine challenge – Silver
Description
“All wines come in at the mouth, and all love comes in at the eye; that’s all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.”
WB Yeats
Heirloom Vineyards was conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking student caught the eye of a silly old wine judge. A love story ensued inspired by two vows: To preserve the best of tradition, the old world of wine and our unique old vineyards and to champion the best clones of each variety planted in the most appropriate sites embracing the principals of organic farming.
Seven long vintages of trial and error passed before Heirloom Vineyards could make a wine that was fine enough to pass on to future generations. That is this wine.
