Stats
- Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
- Vineyard: Tibooburra Vineyard
- Vine Age: 24-years-old
- Soil Type: Black volcanic topsoil over yellow clay with a smattering of granite
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic
- Fermentation: Native – whole-bunch pressed with full solids to 15-50hL old French foudre
- Skin Contact: None
- Aging: 11 months in 30+-year-old 15-50hL French foudre
- pH: 3.06
- Total Acidity: 5.9 g/L
- Total SO2: 71 ppm
- Total Production: 300 cases
Tasting Note
Light, green-tinged gold. Poached pear, tangerine, peach pit and jasmine on the highly perfumed nose. Round and pliant on the palate, offering juicy orchard and pit fruit flavors and a touch of spicy orange zest. Finishes supple, intensely floral and extremely long, with excellent clarity and lift provided by juicy acidity and a jolt of smoky minerals.
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
95
"The Luke Lambert website has an excellent, and money saving online shop. Everything is listed as being ‘Sold Out’. Anyway, in terms of ‘style’, the Chardonnay from Luke Lambert is very much my preferred type.
Subtle chamomile and honey mint perfume, white peach and lemon barley water. It’s flinty and tight, but kind of gentle too. A wine of delicacy and quiet charm, just enough flavour, cool, clean and saline, with crunch, Japanese ginger, and ripe lemon in the aftertaste. It’s a beautiful and most refreshing thing to drink. I love it."
- Gary Walsh
Subtle chamomile and honey mint perfume, white peach and lemon barley water. It’s flinty and tight, but kind of gentle too. A wine of delicacy and quiet charm, just enough flavour, cool, clean and saline, with crunch, Japanese ginger, and ripe lemon in the aftertaste. It’s a beautiful and most refreshing thing to drink. I love it."
- Gary Walsh