2023 Commune of Buttons 'Eurilla' Chardonnay

Eurilla Chardonnay has a generous mid-palate of cashews and white peach. There is ample fruit weight, underlined by minerality and chalk with thirst-quenching natural acidity.

Jasper Button and his team took over the lease on a 0.7-hectare block of I10v1 Chardonnay vines in the cool, late-ripening Merrowbank Vineyard in Piccadilly Valley in 2020. The vines are perched on a south-facing slope at 500 metres, were planted in 1998 and are rooted in sandy clay soils with quartz and hardened sandstone. The fruit was pressed as whole bunches to three-year-old barriques for fermentation followed by eleven months maturation in the same vessel.