Garagiste Tuerong Chardonnay 2022

Garagiste Tuerong Chardonnay is a dry-grown Chardonnay from north-facing vines on sandy soils at Tuerong.

The soils here have nothing in common with Merricks: grey-black sand over brown sandy loam, dry-grown, north-facing, with 32-year-old vines. It is the first site picked each vintage, sometimes two weeks before Merricks, which is a useful reminder of what aspect does on the Peninsula. Fruit was hand-harvested, hand-sorted and pressed as whole bunches before a natural ferment on high solids in 500-litre puncheons from François Frères, a quarter of them new. A portion completed malolactic conversion naturally, then the wine spent nine months on full gross lees with no bâtonnage.

Lemon curd, white flowers and a struck-match lift, then a palate that is generous in the middle and cut fine at the edges. Serve at 11 to 12 degrees with roast pork, grilled prawns or a leek and gruyère tart.

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