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Decades Chardonnay 2024
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- TASTING NOTE: "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." 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday
- ABOUT THE WINE: "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." Decades
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: 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 & 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. An additional 7ha of vines, mostly pinot noir, have been planted since, bringing the total area under vine to around 9.5ha (just 1.3ha of this is chardonnay), although only the most premium fruit will ever be used to make Decades wines. Halliday
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Coal River Valley, Tasmania
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Steve Flamsteed
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
