Spring Seed Four O'Clock Chardonnay 2018

 

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A well known, attractive, free-spirited variety producing a splendid effect in the glass. Four O'Clock Chardonnay has a nose of nectarine and lime and a crisp finish. This Chardonnay is a completely unoaked style allowing the fresh, varietal flavours of citrus, stonefruit and pineapple to really shine. Vibrant, balance and so flavoursome, this is versatile, organic Chardonnay offers superb value drinking at this price.

Tasting notes from the winery for Spring Seed Four O'Clock Chardonnay 2018

A well known, attractive, free-spirited variety producing a splendid effect in the glass. Four O'Clock Chardonnay has a nose of nectarine and lime and a crisp finish. 

Spring Seed Wines are made from grapes lovingly grown in our family's organic vineyard, located in the premium wine region of McLaren Vale, South Australia. The vineyard was established in the early 1970's by Peter and Anthea Bosworth, and is now owned and run by their son Joch, who began the conversion to organic viticulture in 1995. The vines are fully certified 'A' grade organic by Australian Certified Organic, a process that takes four years and involves yearly audits and random sampling of produce.

The Spring Seed Wine labels are unashamedly inspired by vintage flower seed packets created at the turn of the last century. The colour, clarity and beauty of the original seed packets are quite remarkable. We chose three different flower images to adorn each one of our McLaren Vale, simply because they are quite lovely. The Four O'Clock Chardonnay displays the Four O'Clock (Mirabilis jalapa), Gaillardia (Gaillardia pulchella) and the Brachycome (Iberidifolia).

Vintage: We had a very dry spring leading up to vintage 2016 and it was windy, too. We expect windy conditions in Willunga, but this was pretty intense. October and December were both pretty warm, whereas November was mild. Very healthy crops were recorded across all varieties in McLaren Vale. We had a huge downpour at the end of January a few days before the whites were due to be picked; this kind of weather event tends to give Joch a sense of tightening around the left chest area, neck and sometimes down the arm. However this 50mm downpour succeeded in refreshing the vines, giving us a few more days before picking and bringing the lawns back from the brink. February was mild with cool nights and March provided pretty good picking conditions, give or take a few warm days.

Winemaking: We pick our Four O’clock Chardonnay at night, or early in the morning to keep the grapes cool and help jolly along the delicate nectarine and stone fruit characters and not lose them. Joch and the team make this wine in batches so we end up with different components when it comes time to put the wine together and bottle it. We get our Chardonnay from 3 different (organic) blocks on the vineyards, so each batch brings its own peculiarities of site with it to the mix. We try our very hardest to keep the ferment away from oxygen, and the grapes undergo a cool ferment in stainless steel tanks. We don’t allow the wine to go through the secondary malolactic fermentation, because we want to protect the natural acidity.

Technical Details
Alc/Vol: 13.0%
Certified organic

(SKU: SS_Cha_18)

Wine Type White
Vintage 2018
Grapes Chardonnay
Region McLaren Vale, SA
Volume 750mL
Packaging Glass Bottle
Closure Screwcap
Alcohol % 13.0
Certified Organic Yes
Oak Usage Unwooded

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