Tasting Notes for Spring Seed Four O'Clock Chardonnay from the Winery

‘Four o’clock’ is a super chardonnay showing classic characters of stone fruit (peach and nectarine) and with a hint of green apple. You might be forgiven for thinking that the wine has spent some time in oak, because it is a lovely complex style, but your senses would be deceiving you! It is completely unoaked.

The wine is delicious with classic Chardonnay and food matches; mushroom risotto, roast chicken or enjoyed lightly chilled as an aperitif. It’s a versatile style.

Winemaking

We pick our chardonnay at night, to take advantage of the cooler temperatures which helps preserve the delicate flavours and aromas. Picking in the cool of the night also helps preserve the grapes natural acidity. We make this chardonnay in a few batches, so we have blending components when it comes to putting the wine together prior to bottling, which adds to complexity and .

Some grapes are fermented in stainless steel tanks, some are fermented and then left on solids (the yeast which ferments the sugar in the grapes, to alcohol) and all of the components go through a cool ferment to preserve the peach and nectarine characters that we get from our chardonnay. We stop the wines from going through malolactic fermentation, which helps the wine keep its crunchy acidity.

Spring Seed

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).

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