2024 Purus Chardonnay
Pure white fruits | Minerality | French oak
$69.00
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Purus is a translation of pristine flavours, textures and the climate of southern Margaret River Chardonnay into wine. The vines have been carefully managed to allow only dappled light into the fruiting zone. This promotes flavour development, low tannins and bright levels of natural acidity.
Pure perfumes of white pear, jasmine flower and wet granite are elegantly suspended above a palate carved from grapefruit pith and white nectarine flesh. Lashings of focused white fruit tannin and porcelain texture and length culminate in a sheer wall of quenching minerality and bristling tension.
AWARDS
97pts Ray Jordan "..has a precise purity and freshness about it, showing lots of white peach, a little nectarine, citrus and a sort of lemon-curd-brioche combination. The palate has a slight savoury chalky confluence that comes together and then drives with great purpose through to a long finish. This is the most stylish expression of Margaret River chardonnay that captures the awesome power of the fruit from this region."
96pts Top 100 James Suckling "..tightly wound and precise with driven acidity and a chalky texture, showing lemon pith, white peaches, hazelnuts and flint. Mineral and focussed with great tension and length."
95pts Winefront "...a very minerally wine, fine boned and long."
95pts The Real Review "..plenty here to like. Powerful and mouth-fllling on the palate, with a drive of citrus, nectarine and nutty, spicy oak. The acidity is lively and brings plenty of shape and there's some pleasing phenolic grip on the finish." Aaron Brasher
ALCOHOL
12.8% by Vol | 7.6 Standard Drinks
FOOD MATCHING
Roast free range chicken | veal | strong cheeses
GROWING SEASON
Lower than average soil moisture and higher than average temperatures through late spring and early summer allowed for smaller berries with better spacing on the bunch. This set the stage for a concentrated and intensely flavoured crop.
VARIETY
Dijon Clone Chardonnay
WINEMAKING
Hand picked, whole cluster pressed. The cloudy juice was wild fermented in French Oak Barriques. In order to preserve the purity of fruit and natural acidity, the wine did not undergo malo‐lactic fermentation.
MATURATION
40% new 228L French oak barrels for 10 months with low toast levels. The wood is primarily from the Vosges and Allier forests.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Attractive in youth | up to 8 years maturation.
HARVESTED
9th February 2024
