Stats
- Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
- Vineyard: Bobar Vineyard - Nenagh Park
- Vine Age: 17-years-old
- Soil Type: Grey loam over deep clay
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic
- Fermentation: Native in a 675L concrete egg – 100% whole-bunch pressed
- Skin Contact: None
- Aging: 6 months in concrete egg
- pH: 3.42
- Total Acidity: 5.3 g/L
- Total SO2: 6 ppm
- Total Production: 70 cases
Tasting Note
“This is unreal. It sits up and at you, leaping from the glass with ripe lemon, green apple, faint sea spray scents and between bouquet and palate a light honey cream thing that’s every so fetching. Texture is generous, weighty with pulpy chardonnay flavours, but there’s a clatter of saline tang that crunches through that flesh, almost brittle as it finishes and wholly lip-smacking, mouth-watering fresh. You’d say ‘by way of Jura’ but it’s not that nutty savoury, it’s more about that salty minerality.” – Mike Bennie
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
96
"Chardonnay by way of Tom Belford and family. It’s a fuller figured expression than the standard chardonnay release of Bobar, full of detail and personality. It’s from Yarra Valley, sees no additions, and has a fetching canvas/cloth label, if bottle texture is important to you. This is antithesis to school of restraint and skeletal leanness that Yarra has brought into our chardonnay lexicon, and it’s righteous for it.
This is unreal. It sits up and at you, leaping from the glass with ripe lemon, green apple, faint sea spray scents and between bouquet and palate a light honey cream thing that’s every so fetching. Texture is generous, weighty with pulpy chardonnay flavours, but there’s a clatter of saline tang that crunches through that flesh, almost brittle as it finishes and wholly lip-smacking, mouth-watering fresh. You’d say ‘by way of Jura’ but it’s not that nutty savoury, it’s more about that salty minerality. This is the best Bobar wine released yet."
- Mike Bennie
This is unreal. It sits up and at you, leaping from the glass with ripe lemon, green apple, faint sea spray scents and between bouquet and palate a light honey cream thing that’s every so fetching. Texture is generous, weighty with pulpy chardonnay flavours, but there’s a clatter of saline tang that crunches through that flesh, almost brittle as it finishes and wholly lip-smacking, mouth-watering fresh. You’d say ‘by way of Jura’ but it’s not that nutty savoury, it’s more about that salty minerality. This is the best Bobar wine released yet."
- Mike Bennie