{"title":"DECADES WINES","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"decades-chardonnay-2024","title":"Decades Chardonnay 2024","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTASTING NOTE: \u003c\/strong\u003e\"There is no doubt that something special is happening with this site in Tea Tree in the Upper Coal River Valley thanks to the efforts of old mates Steve Flamsteed and Brad Rogers. It's a beautiful wine. It feels unfettered and unadorned by artefact, with pure nectarine, citrus and pithy grapefruit at its base. There are suggestions of spiced oatmeal, stone, clover blossom and some vanilla and struck flint further back in the mix. It’s the palate that grabs you though, with its swell of poised stone and citrus fruits, the slink of pithy texture with a precise, slatey composure and wickedly mineral acidity that seems to pull the wine across the palate with grace, focus and pitch-perfect velocity.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE WINE: \u003c\/strong\u003e\"Our 2024 Chardonnay has a minerally structure with a real fruit purity. We wanted to explore what the site had to offer in a lovely cool year, so we kept the winemaking very simple. The fruit was hand-picked, sorted and whole bunch pressed straight into a selection of large format seasoned French oak barrels for wild fermentation. Half the barrels went through a spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The result is a citrus, elegant wine with a lovely underlying acidity - subtle with plenty of fruit presence. The wine was bottled on 4th February 2025 and is limited to only 200 cartons.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDecades\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE PRODUCER:\u003c\/strong\u003e Three decades after meeting at Roseworthy College, winemaker\/consultant Steve Flamsteed (ex-Giant Steps) and brewer Brad Rogers, co-founder of the Byron Bay beer brand Stone \u0026amp; Wood, decided to make wine together. In ’22, they bought the old Woodlands vineyard (not to be confused with the producer of the same name) from viticulturist Paul Laing in Tea Tree in Southern Tasmania’s Coal River Valley and renamed it Decades after the Joy Division song (although it’s also a nod to the length of their friendship and the age of the original vines, which were planted in ‘92), and in ’23, made the first pinot noir and chardonnay. 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Dark cherry, wild strawberry and dark plum mesh seamlessly with underlying hints of amaro herbs, medina spice, Campari, sandalwood, pomegranate, raspberry coulis and turned earth and leaves. There's a beautiful flow and presence to this wine, the ripe fruit travelling with grace and fine detail. A flair of powdery, silty tannins provides support and a bright, minerally cadence drives the wine forward. The dance between bunchy nuance and fruit purity is bang on here as the wine finishes complex, long and enduring.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE WINE: \u003c\/strong\u003e\"Our 2024 Pinot Noir has all the classic blue fruits that come from the Coal River Valley’s unique black clay soil. The fruit characters are dense, with a touch of Campari spice aroma, from the small whole bunch parcel. The region does fruit density exceptionally well, but we’ve tried to tease out a little perfume delicacy. The fruit was hand-picked in two parcels. The first parcel fermented entirely as whole bunches. The second was de-stemmed, then cold soaked for 5 days before a slow wild fermentation. Both parcels were pressed into small seasoned French oak for malolactic fermentation and left on lees for 9 months. The wine was bottled on 4th February 2025 and is limited to only 350 cartons.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDecades\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE PRODUCER:\u003c\/strong\u003e Three decades after meeting at Roseworthy College, winemaker\/consultant Steve Flamsteed (ex-Giant Steps) and brewer Brad Rogers, co-founder of the Byron Bay beer brand Stone \u0026amp; Wood, decided to make wine together. 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