STONECROFT CHARDONNAY 2021

Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"This Chardonnay is from fruit from both our Roy’s Hill and Mere Road Vineyards. The clones of Chardonnay are Mendoza and Clone 15 which both produce low to moderate yields and rich fruit flavours.

This Chardonnay has a fruit forward bouquet with stonefruit and citrus plus a flinty note. On the palate, it has rich peach and nectarine flavours, with a weighty texture and a long finish. Four barrels were made."

4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"Certified organic, the 2021 vintage was hand-picked in the estate's vineyards at Roy's Hill and Mere Road, fermented and matured for seven months in French oak barriques (20 per cent new), and given a full, softening malolactic fermentation. Bright, light yellow/green, it is a weighty, sweet-fruited wine, with generous, ripe fruit flavours, showing very good richness, complexity and harmony, and a very smooth finish. Delicious young."

Reviews for the 2020 vintage below…

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2021 (2020 Vintage)
"Bold, toasty, fruity and youthful bouquet with aromas of baked custard and peaches, fresh red apple and vanilla, greywacke stones and toasty oak, baked grapefruit and raw sugar. Complex, youthful and forward. On the palate – full bodied, toasty, spicy, fruit and rich in flavour and texture. Fine wood tannins, warming alcohol and flavours of baked fruits, nut, barrel spices and stony mineral flavours make for a lovely example. Best kept in the cellar for a while longer with best drinking from late 2021 through 2026+."

*note this wine is under screwcap rather than cork as pictured.