Clarence House Estate Chardonnay 2024 producer_Torrevento Crafted by steeping handpicked Rutherglen

Crafted by steeping handpicked Rutherglen Brown Muscat grapes in Backwoods' award-winning High Country Gin

A gently sweet moelleux with residual sugar around 70 grams per litre making this a wine that will match with so many desserts rather than competing with them for sweetness

0% Alc/Vol Final acid: 5

around 20% new and the rest 2-4 years old

Wine Notes

Clarence House Estate Chardonnay 2024 producer_Torrevento Crafted by steeping handpicked RutherglenEntirely from a single block, three clones of Chardonnay (including the prized Penfolds clone) reside on an east facing slope with views back towards the Clarence House homestead and Mt Rumney. Picked in the first days of April, whole bunch pressed and allowed to ferment wild in a combination of new and old French oak barriques and puncheons. Fine but flavoursome, with apple and citrus, a whiff of sulphide struck match complexity, fennel, and spicy