2023 Charlotte Dalton 'Grace' Chardonnay

About The Wine

If you've been into the shop and asked me for a recommendation, there's a good chance i've introduced you to this wine. She is elegant and beautiful, gentle and mesmerising. She knows only love and bears no grudges. She is also super delicious. 

Grapes hand-harvested from the Deanery Vineyard in Balhannah, Adelaide Hills, and pressed directly to French oak (30% new), for wild fermentation. The wine remained in barrel on full lees until bottling in mid-September, with fortnightly stirring for two months post-harvest. Full malolactic fermentation adds richness and complexity, while the wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered to preserve its natural character.

Melon, stone fruit and jasmine all shine through while a lovely toasted hazelnut, wrapped in a seamless, creamy texture with soft acidity. Go ahead, you will not be disappointed.

About Charlotte

Winner of the 2021 Young Gun of Wine.

Charlotte Hardy is a global winemaker, resident of the ‘Hitsville’ of South Australian wine regions, Basket Range, and owner of a black Labrador puppy called Keith. For Charlotte, each wine takes on a persona, beginning – as you might expect – in the vineyard, but then revealing its true identity along the winemaking journey.

It’s all softly, softly here. No additions (apart from a touch of sulphur in some but not all wines) and no pushing the wines in a direction they don’t want to go. And the wines are amazing. Charlotte coaxes the beauties out of their little vinous shells and reveals some of the most heartfelt and delicious wines we’ve come across.

Snapshot

Region: Adelaide Hills, South Australia

Country: Australia

Alcohol: 12%

Vintage: 2023

Size: 750ml

Closure: Screwcap

Variety: Chardonnay

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