Stats
- Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
- Vineyard: Dash Farms
- Vine Age: 26-years-old
- Soil Type: Decomposed granite
- Viticulture: Conventional
- Fermentation: Native – barrel fermented
- Skin Contact: None
- Aging: 12 months in barrel followed by 4 months in stainless-steel
- Alcohol: 13%
- pH: 3.3
- Total Acidity: 5.5 g/L
- Total SO2: 80 ppm
- Total Production: 125 cases
Tasting Notes
Pale with a green edge, Dash Farm offers glass filling aromas of crushed rock lemon and grapefruit rind, jasmine and spice. Flavors carry through to a dense and powerful palate with savory complexity and a fine acid line.
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
95
"The 2022 Dash Farms Vineyard Chardonnay is precise and salty, with a score of scintillating acidity that courses across the palate. There is salted white peach, crushed cashew, cut fennel, star anise, white flowers, a hint of green tea and very fine, pumice stone tannins. This is a sensational wine—superb, in fact. Needlepoint precision and detail here. It's svelte, seamless, unbroken and persistent. 13% alcohol, sealed under Diam and wax."
- Erin Larkin
- Erin Larkin
The Wine Front
96
"From Mt Alexander and a single vineyard site that lies just outside the Macedon Ranges GI. Pretty strong track record for chardonnay for this younger gen producer.
There’s this beautiful chew and chalkiness to this wine, succulence in essence, a minerality that speaks of granite and slate, a coda of saline nuttiness and all the grapefruity tang married to green apple crunch. Thirst-slaking in nature with a strong sense of savouriness, a wine of understatement too, a kind of levity and purity with gentle seasoning to draw out the notion of complexity. My oh my, so much pleasure here."
- Mike Bennie
There’s this beautiful chew and chalkiness to this wine, succulence in essence, a minerality that speaks of granite and slate, a coda of saline nuttiness and all the grapefruity tang married to green apple crunch. Thirst-slaking in nature with a strong sense of savouriness, a wine of understatement too, a kind of levity and purity with gentle seasoning to draw out the notion of complexity. My oh my, so much pleasure here."
- Mike Bennie