Bondar Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2024

Bondar Adelaide Hills Chardonnay is a textural, flint-edged Chardonnay from an amphitheatre-shaped vineyard south of Hahndorf.

Rathmine lies just south of Hahndorf, an amphitheatre of a site whose fruit the Bondars have bought from the same grower for more than a decade. The Bernard 76 vines are approaching thirty years old, their roots pushing through shallow clay into limey rock and a limestone base. Andre and Selina hand-pick and press slowly, without shielding the juice from oxygen, then ferment on wild yeasts in large barrels, a quarter of them new, at warm temperatures, which they say encourages richer mouthfeel and nutty, complex flavour. The wine stayed in oak until December, then moved to tank until February.

Flinty at the core, wrapped in ripe citrus and stone fruit, with the restraint and precision that mark out good Australian Chardonnay. Serve at 12 degrees. Chicken with lemon and thyme, grilled crayfish, or a mushroom risotto.

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