2012 McIntyre Chardonnay

The Wine
(200 cases produced)

This wine represents the pinnacle of style and quality of Moorooduc Estate ‘McIntyre Vineyard’ Chardonnay.  A result of a stringent fruit selection from our oldest chardonnay vines this wine expresses the unique characters of this vineyard site.

We think this could be our best ‘Duc Chardonnay thus far – a wonderfully balanced and complex wine, tight and fine yet with restrained muscularity!   Pale lemon coloured with fresh aromatics of white stone fruit, toasted almonds and hazelnuts, a touch of pink grapefruit and flinty, spicy complexity.  On the palate, the wine unfolds slowly and wonderfully!  A difficult wine to describe in words – Halliday writes ‘The bouquet has compelling touches of flinty reduction, the palate profiting mightily from the drive engendered by the bouquet and that which has gone before.’

We are confident that if you have been a fan of this wine in the past, the only way that you can be disappointed by this wine, is if you don’t buy it and put it in your cellar while it is available!