Marchand & Burch Chardonnay 2010 75cl

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Colour
White
Vintage
2010
Producer
Marchand & Burch
Country
AUSTRALIA
Region
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Sub Region
GREAT SOUTHERN
Alcohol
13%
Product code
14MAR2B2010
Availability
10 cases
Grape Variety
100% Chardonnay

Tasting Notes

Selected chardonnay grapes from the Porongurup region have been hand picked and whole bunch pressed, using slow wild ferments in small French oak barrels to produce a wine with complex aromas of cashew, grapefruit and lemon blossom. The palate structure is fine and elegant with great oak integration, generous mouthfeel and palate length.

Vinification Details.

The fruit was hand sorted to remove any imperfect bunches. These were then whole bunch pressed to extract prisitine juice with an absolute minimum of phenolic impact.The resulting juices were given minimal settling and were racked to French barriques with 40% new oak being used. A natural barrel fermentation was then utilised. After fermentation, the separate parcels were matured on lees for 10 months. Over this period half the wine was allowed a natural malolactic fermentation to give further complexity and body.

Producer Information

Marchand & Burch is a unique partnership between Burgundian winemaker Pascal Marchand (previously at Domaine de la Vougeraie) and Jeff Burch from Australian winery Howard Park. This is their first vintage; where Old World meets New World for the creation of two fabulous wines! In 2006, they identified vineyard blocks in the South West of Western Australia, and their aim has since been to work the natural environment and craft wines that best express the soils from which they come from. By adopting the biodynamic approach, the winemaking process is traditional yet modern, with minimal intervention, allowing the wines to become true expressions of their natural source.

Regional info.

An exhaustive search was carried out in mid 2006 to identify possible sites for sourcing only the highest quality Chardonnay. The Great Southern was quickly identified by Pascal Marchand as

being the optimal Western Australian region and one vineyard was selected from the Porongurups subregion. The fruit was hand picked over two days and transported by refrigerated trailer to the Denmark winery and held in cold storage overnight, keeping the fruit in pristine condition before processing.

More information

ageing potential

6 years

residual sugar

1.8g/l

wine ph

3.15

food match

Middle Eastern roast guinea fowl with saffron couscous

total acidity

7.4g/l

makers name

Tony Davis & Pascal Marchand

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organic

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