Tolpuddle Chardonnay 2020

Since acquiring the vineyard in 2011, Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith have invested heavily in improving all aspects of the vineyard, including soil improvement, conversion to cane pruning, trellis modifications, frost protection and clonal improvements. They are fully committed to seeing it recognised as one of Australia’s great single vineyard sites. Tolpuddle Chardonnay 2020 vintage is a classic Tolpuddle wine with a backbone of acidity, yellow grapefruit, lemon pith, and some flinty minerality. A combination of lightness, delicacy and texture. This is a chardonnay of line and length if ever there was one. It’s not quite piercing but it’s on its way there. Preserved lemon, nectarine, crunchy green apple and chalk flavours come whispered with cedar, honeysuckle and lactose, though nothing here is overt. It feels refined, long and tense but it also feels sure of itself; it feels certain. It’s a beautiful chardonnay, young, essential, of gold medal standard. – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, 94+ Points The Finer Details Style – White Wine Varietal – Chardonnay Country – Australia Region – Coal River, Tasmania Vintage – 2020 Bottle Size – 750ml ABV – 13%