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This is an easy-drinking Chardonnay made for drinking while in the flush of its youth.

Sourced from a vineyard not far from Pat’s birthplace, this site in the Bendigo G.I. finds plenty of flavour at low sugar levels allowing for a weighty Chardonnay that isn’t too rich.

It has plenty of fruit but finishes with a cracked-wheat savouriness through the finish. Lovely stuff and great buying from this young upstart.

The fruit is sourced from two sites on the western slopes of Leanganook (Mount Alexander). The Dash Farms site is planted on the southern ridge, sits at 475 metres elevation and has a north-south row orientation. The other source, the Igneous Vineyard, lies 2.5 kilometres to the northwest and sits at 430 metres elevation with an east-west row orientation. Both sites are on quartz and feldspar sand or decomposed granite, and were planted in the 1990s to the I clones.

Each block was hand-harvested over three picks starting on the 9th of March and concluding on the 21st. The fruit was whole bunch pressed and wild fermented in stainless steel, before being sent to old barrique, puncheon and demi muid where it rested until late summer. The wine was then racked back to tank for a couple of months before bottling on the 1st of March.