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Bass Phillip 'Premium' Chardonnay 2022
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- TASTING NOTE: "A powerhouse of a wine with a mid-gold hue, loads of flavour from white peach, baked quince, lemon, lime and grapefruit juice, zest and pith with ginger and oak spice. Good fruit within, yet ultimately savoury with creamy nutty lees and baked shortcrust pastry. Slippery phenolics add to the full-bodied palate. It's rich but by no means heavy, complex and detailed, contemplative, too. It’s also the last complete vintage for John Durham, who originally came to help Philip Jones with the change-over of ownership but stayed on during the COVID years. He left in late ‘23. Durham helped put mod-Oz chardonnay on the map back in the early Cape Mentelle days, and this is an excellent swan song." 97 Points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday
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ABOUT THE WINE: Grapes were whole bunch pressed directly to barrel for a natural fermentation in a temperature controlled environment. A minimal SO2 addition to each barrel. We chose extra tight grain oak barrels with a light toast, 59% were new barrels for the Premium Chardonnay blend. Towards the end of fermentation, barrels were topped up and over the course of time given an occasional stir with topping up every week. All barrels underwent malo-lactic before
adding a small amount of SO2. Wine stayed in barrel for 14 months. The Premium is a selection of our finest barrels from the Leongatha vineyard and all barrels from Leongatha South. The barrels are gently gravity decanted off the settled lees via a tap inserted near the bottom of the headboard of the barrel to tank. No fining of any sort, but coarsely filtered to bottle in July 2023.
Bass Phillip -
ABOUT THE PRODUCER: The story of Bass Phillip starts back in the early 1970's when the first vineyard site, located 15 kilometres south of Leongatha, was selected to plant vines based on climatic and topographical observations which when combined with South Gippsland's moderating influences of the mountains to the north and ocean to the south, produces the perfect conditions for long, slow ripening of grapes. Our other 7.5-hectare vineyard was then planted in 1998 primarily with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay but also some small plantings of Gewurztraminer and Nebbiolo, all on a north facing slope, in Leongatha's hinterland, increasing our overall area of vines to just over 10 hectares. Our wines reflect our vines and their terroir, which is enhanced by our close planted, low cropping, old vines with only the use of natural processes and sprays, no irrigation and meticulous canopy management, culminating to produce wines of depth, length and complexity. Bass Phillip
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Gippsland, Victoria
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Jean-Marie Fourrier & John Durham
- CLASSIFICATION: Sustainable Farming, Vegan
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13.2%
- SIZE: 750ml
