Punch Lance’s Vineyard Chardonnay (6 Bottles) Yarra Valley

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Our Estate Vineyard. Old vines and fastidious viticulture produce fruit that sings a song of both place and variety.

After originally planting just two rows of Chardonnay in 1977, the results inspired planting a further 0.8 Hectares in 1984. These vines are hand pruned, dressed and harvested. Made without added yeast, fining or filtration, this wine is estate bottled, with a limited production of 2,650 bottles.

REVIEWS
Halliday Wine Companion 2021

Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed direct to barrel, wild-fermented, matured for 10 months on lees in barrel. Fresh and bright grapefruit. Balance and length, all class. Screwcap. 13% alc. To 2027. Rating 95

Campbell Mattinson – The Winefront – June 2021

Despite its consistent excellence Punch Chardonnay probably flies under the radar a bit. This release is the perfect example of the Punch way; indeed it’s the perfect example of varietal chardonnay. Sweet stone fruit, green pineapple, pear and lemon, cedarwood and cashew characters burst through the palate in convincing fashion. It’s a wine that smells the goods straight up, immediately on opening, and then rockets along in the glass for as long as there’s some left. It’s both fresh and full; it’s complete. I kept coming back and back to it; it has that allure. Rated 95 Points

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About Punched Wine

Hello, we’re James and Claire Lance and this is Punch.

James has been making wine from his family’s vineyard for more than 25 years, firstly under the tutelage of his father – recognised Pinot Pioneer and Diamond Valley Vineyards founder, David Lance – and since 2005, making his own mark with Punch.

In 1975, after a two year search for their ideal vineyard site, David and Catherine Lance found a beautiful twenty acres of sloping land in the hamlet of St Andrews, Yarra Valley. The soils were poor, thin & riddled with rock. The elevation was high (280m) & the site was a natural amphitheatre, perfect for capturing sunlight without excessive heat.

The family began planting in 1976. With David and Catherine’s retirement in 2005, James & Claire Lance took on Lance’s Vineyard & Winery, and started Punch. Together they believe that this vineyard has consistently proven itself to be one of Australia’s most distinguished sites.

Our vineyard is meticulously and sensitively cared for – using appropriate organic and holistic systems based on both science and years’ experience. Vines are hand dressed, pruned and harvested. In the winery we use minimal interventions, harnessing natural yeasts, gravity settlings, slow elevage in barrel, and no fining or filtration. After estate bottling, we allow all of our wines significant time in bottle, to develop closer to their peak before release.

In February 2009, just a few weeks before harvest was to commence, a Black Saturday bushfire burnt though Lance’s Vineyard, destroying our year’s fruit. The community response to this day was remarkable in its generosity of spirit. Our personal experience of this was quick to come, with our phone ringing almost immediately, and grape grower friends asking “how can we help?”. Our answer was simple – “please sell us some grapes!” And they did. In each case they shared with us significant portions of their scant, wonderful 2009 crop. We thank them sincerely.

To honour and celebrate this help, we began a new label – Friends of Punch – incorporating a love heart as a symbol of our gratitude. As Lance’s Vineyard has recovered from the fire, we have maintained Friends of Punch as the home for small parcels of beautiful fruit, grown on our friends’ vineyards, made by us at our winery.

We’d love for you to try our wines, available online here, from one of our stockists, or in our cellar door – Punch Wine Room – right in the heart of St Andrews.

In the spirit of reconciliation, we wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People as Traditional Custodians of the Yarra Valley region and their connections to land, water and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Cheers

James and Claire Lance

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