Byrne Farm 'Single Barrel' Chardonnay 2024

Byrne Farm 'Single Barrel' Chardonnay is a single-foudre Chardonnay from thirty-year-old vines at Nashdale in Orange.

The Balmoral block tops Jeff Byrne's list of favoured Orange sites, and it feeds his standard Chardonnay too; this bottling comes from one parcel of thirty-year-old vines within it, among the oldest in the region. They sit at 880 metres on a northeast-facing slope of Mount Canobolas in volcanic chocolate ferrosol. The 2024 season broke a three-year cool run — a warm spring with well-timed showers, healthy canopies, a dozen days above thirty degrees — so picking came early with full phenological ripeness. Hand-picked fruit was pressed as bunches into a single new 2500-litre French foudre, matured ten months and taken through full malolactic conversion.

Wisps of reduction give way to ripe citrus and stone fruit with salt, flowers and grilled nuts, the oak sitting well back. Fleshy weight, cool-climate acidity, real length. Serve at 11 to 12 degrees with roast chicken, seared scallops, or a wedge of gruyère.

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