A great example of well-made Australian Chardonnay, displaying an obvious solid balance between its oak treatment and delicious fresh fruit.
Vintage | 2018
Range | Estate | SIGNATURE RANGE
Awards
94 POINTS | James Halliday "WIne Companion 2020"
GOLD | Sommeliers Choice Awards USA 2020
TASTING NOTES
This generously complex wine showcases wonderful tropical fruit aromas and rewards with delightful flavours of lychee, grapefruit and lime. Beautifully balanced with a mineral line throughout and a lingering velvety finish. Drinking beautifully now but will reward with careful cellaring.
"The Mappinga wines are Sidewoods flagship wines and only bear this label when the wine is good enough to make this echelon"
Vintage | 2018
Grape Variety | 100% Chardonnay
Alc/Vol | 12%
Range | Signature
Wine Maker | Daryl Catlyn
Serving Temperature | 12-14C
Aging | 10 Months French Oak
Cellaring | Up to 8 years
Vineyard | A mixture of sandy loams, loams and clay loams over clay subsoils that vary in structure. It is not unusual to find these soils combined with shale and ironstone. The differences in topography and soil type affects wine growth and this contributes greatly to wine styles.
While it's still tight and relatively lean, flavours of spicy stone fruit, almond meal and oak spice come through with some grip to the phenolics"
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Jane Faulkner
- 01 August 2019