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Fighting Gully Road Smith Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

$125.00
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The incredibly knowledgeable and deep-thinking Mark Walpole continues on his quest for vinous greatness and the new 2024 Chardonnay from Beechworth’s oldest vineyard continues this trajectory. The wine has just picked up the TOP REGIONAL TROPHY FOR BEECHWORTH AT THE JAMES HALLIDAY CHARDONNAY AND CABERNET CHALLENGE! LAST YEAR’S 2023 RELEASE WAS HUON HOOKE’S ‘THE REAL REVIEW WHITE WINE OF THE YEAR’!
Sourced from the cool, elevated slopes of the Smith Vineyard, planted in 1978, this wine was fermented and matured for 18 months in new and used French oak. The wine went through partial malolactic fermentation. This wine is all about precision, tension, and layered complexity. There's the hallmark citrus and white stone fruit, beautifully integrated oak, and that signature mineral drive we love from this site. 96 Points - James Halliday Chardonnay and Cabernet Challenge

Critic Score:  96 Points
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Fighting Gully Road

At an elevation of 530 – 580m above sea level, Fighting Gully Road is a cool, breeze-blown site. It’s steady slopes rise to the top of the escarpment that overlooks the fertile Murmungee basin, south of Beechworth. In 1995, when we purchased the farm, these slopes were covered in scrub, stumps and many thousands of rabbits. There was hard work ahead, but also plenty of potential. The first vines were planted at the Fighting Gully Road vineyard site in 1997 – Cabernet Sauvignon and a small plot of Merlot on the north and west-facing slopes, followed by Pinot No​ir on the upper and east-facing slopes in the following year. Over subsequent years, small areas have been reworked to Tempranillo, Shiraz and Sangiovese.

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