Rochford Single Vineyard 'Premier' Chardonnay 2022
RRP: $100.00
96 Points- Halliday Wine Companion 2025
96 Points - The Wine Front 2025
“… Great chardonnay. Powerful, stern, joyous, long, characterful and no doubt more. The front palate cocks the trigger; the back palate slams it home. Honeysuckle, riverstones, white peach, nougat and whispers of flint. Chalk through the finish. Stones, licked. Ample fruit. A healthy wash of acidity. All day long. Make my day.”
- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
95 Points - The Real Review 2024
95 Points – Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy 2025
Tasting Notes:
This Premier shows classic hallmarks of Upper Yarra chardonnay, flint and river pebble, pastries, lime marmalade. There is quite a powerful undercurrent of ripe grapefruit and white peach. The palate is multilayered with nectarine, Tahitian lime and lemon sorbet. There is a glossy aspect to the texture which fills the palate and delivers both the flavour and refreshment nicely.
Winemaking Notes:
Hand-picked on the 10th of March 2022
Whole bunch pressed to French oak (20% new) for wild fermentation, partial malolactic fermentation, on lees for 10 months. 139 dozen produced.
Viticultural Notes:
The fruit for this Chardonnay comes from a single vineyard in Worri Yallock. Chardonnay clone: P58
2022 will be remembered for the tiniest yields in a decade resulting from poor flowering conditions in our parts of the Yarra Valley. The quality of the resultant wines of this vintage however are outstanding with both concentration and finesse.
Varietal:
Chardonnay 100%
Alcohol:
13.4%