Toolangi Vineyard F Block Chardonnay 2024
RRP: $100.00
98 Points - Halliday Wine Companion 2025
“…A stunning chardonnay. Aromas of stone fruits, ripe white pear, honeysuckle and grilled cashew together with a little gunflint. This all comes together on the powerful, saline, textured and taut palate. The flavours persists long after you've tasted this, while the acidity is perfectly integrated into the wine, ensuring this will age superbly.”
- Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
Tasting Notes:
The 2024 season was warm throughout the ripening period, producing a full-flavoured and expressive F Block release. We see powerful fruit showing stone fruits of white peach and nectarine, aromas of tiny white flowers, a hint of cream and some river pebble mineral characters. The site’s hallmark flinty, chalky character is clearly defined.
The palate shows limey acidity, oatmeal, nectarine, seaside brine and some ripe grapefruit. The finish is long and mineral, framed by chalky phenolics. There is plenty of texture and a gentle roundness from the malo gives balance.
Winemaking Notes:
Hand picked on 23rd February
Whole bunch pressed to French oak barriques (25% new) for wild ferment on solids. The wine undergoes partial malolactic conversion (70%) and remains without sulfur until blending for bottling after 9 months total barrel maturation.
Viticultural Notes:
Fruit sourced from F Block at Toolangi Vineyard, Dixons Creek in the Northern end of the Yara Valley. Planted in 2001, Gingin clone on own roots.
Varietal:
Chardonnay 100%
Alcohol:
13.6%