Conveying the unique characteristics of the Hill Paddock vineyard is essential to our wines and as a result our fruit is 100% estate grown, hand picked, fermented with indigenous yeast and aged in a mix of new and old French oak.
2004 proved to be one of the best growing seasons in the Yarra Valley for decades.
This is reflected in the 2004 Hill Paddock wine’s fresh vitality, structure and lingering concentration. This wine may be enjoyed immediately or further improved with cellaring.
Appearance
Pale straw in colour
Nose
This early picked chardonnay shows nashi pear green apple and fresh honeyed fig
fruits with cashew nut/almond meal nut complexity.
Palate
The lively acid front palate acidity combined with
sweet fruit, juicy acid and mineral oyster shell structure follows with 'struck match' lees influence and a
lengthy, smoky background oak finish.
Great textural complexity and persistent length.
Light straw-green; tightly wound, reserved style; melon, fig and wild ferment characters interwoven; light oak inputs. Screwcap.
12.5° alc.
Rating 89 Drink 2012
Extract reproduced with kind permission from the “James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2007”
