2021 White Feather Chardonnay

Ben Kimmorley has been the assistant winemaker at Curly Flat for many years; this wine is the first he has released under his own label, which in fact is not really his, but one that is dedicated to his late wife Lisa who passed in 2020. Lisa was the viticulturist at Curly Flat, her favourite wine was Chardonnay and she was also a gifted photographer, it is fitting the wine is made from Chardonnay and adorned with one of her photos 'white feather'.

The grapes were sourced from Parkside Estate and the wine was made in a Chablis style that saw large format neutral french oak and natural ferment. The aromatics are piercingly pure with a citrus edge to understated stone fruits and a mineral crushed rock aspect that has such precision. The palate has has energy and verve; citrus and stone fruits are ripe and full initially, but are then tapered and textured by finely filamented lines of acidity and texture that has the faintest almond meal and grapefruit influence. To finish sees just ripe peach and meyer lemon meet in equal measure and a saline edge. Such interest in its youth, but also will evolve with time in the cellar.