2024 'La Justina' Chardonnay, Balhannah, Adelaide Hills

Fingers crossed we’ve found our longer term forever Hill Chardy sites based in Balhannah at site elevation of 340m. 50% 76 clone, 50% 95 clone on sandstone, siltstone and shale soils with organic practices.

Fruit handpicked and direct pressed. Cold settled, racked to 3rd and 4th use puncheons for barrel fermentation. Lees stirring at times but fruit showed floral and delicate notes so we didn’t want to disrupt the balance too much. Lees maturation 11 months before bottling unfined and unfiltered. Wild fermented with zero adds apart from minimal SO2 on bottling.