Petaluma Piccadilly Chardonnay 2007 75cl

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Colour
White
Vintage
2007
Producer
Petaluma
Country
AUSTRALIA
Region
ADELAIDE HILLS
Alcohol
14.5%
Product code
14PET6B2007
Availability
8 cases
Grape Variety
100% Chardonnay

Tasting Notes

Petaluma harvests chardonnay fruit from seven distinguished site vineyards in the Piccadilly Valley sub-region of the Adelaide Hills. The result is a very textured wine with lovely lingering acidity. Nutty, apricot, pear and melon notes with caramelised butter oak and crisp, zesty citrus crashing into the finish.

Vinification Details.

The fruit was handpicked & gently destemmed

and crushed before chilling & pressing. Only free-run and gentle press juice was used, and was racked in new French oak barrels for fermentation after settling. After fermentation it was aged in barrel for a further 10 months with regular battonage.

Producer Information

Petaluma is one of Australia's most important producers, famous for seeking out the finest terroirs in South Australia rather than taking a one-site-fits-all approach to its grapes. Riesling (one of Australia's very best) comes from the Hanlin Hill vineyard in the Clare Valley, Chardonnay from the cool climate Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills and Cabernet from Coonawarra. Andrew 'Ox' Hardy, a member of the original Hardy wine family and a walking encyclopaedia of South Australian wine, is now the man at the helm, ensuring these vineyards have a very exciting future.

Regional info.

In 1976 Brian Croser, an Australian farmer's son, and graduate of agricultural science and oenology, made his first vintage using top quality grapes purchased from local growers. The wines, which included small batches of wine made from Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Chardonnay, garnered numerous medals, and by 1978 Croser moved to purchase land at Piccadilly, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Here he planted Chardonnay in this humid and relatively cool climate.

Today, purchased vineyards in Coonawarra and the Clare Valley, together with those purchased at Piccadilly, provide the fruit for Petaluma's wines today. A modern winery was built at Piccadilly, in time for the 1979 vintage, and to this day it remains the production centre for the wines of Petaluma

Croser's property in the Clare Valley (South Australia) is the Hanlin Hill vineyard, and this is the sole source of fruit for use in Petaluma's Riesling. This is a high altitude (500m above sea level), south facing (which means cooler in the southern hemisphere), fairly dry vineyard. The wine produced is typical Clare Valley Riesling - floral and aromatic, but ripe, full bodied and powerful. At Coonawarra (South Australia), the Evans Vineyard is the source of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot for the Petaluma Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon. This vineyard is at the northern end of the region, situated on the Terra Rossa soil which is responsible to some extent for the character of the wines produced here. Petaluma's Chardonnay, is sourced from the vines at Piccadilly (South Australia). The newest vines are in the Tiers Vineyard, planted around the winery itself, and these are the source of the fruit for Petaluma's premium wine, the Tiers Chardonnay.

The Piccadilly Valley has the coolest and most Burgundy like climate of South Australia with free draining, aerobic red soils over Cambrian shales. The Petaluma distinguished site vineyards are closely spaced with vertical canopies and are fastidiously managed with shoot and fruit thinning to achieve very modest crop levels of around 5 to 7 tonnes/hectare.

More information

ageing potential

5+ years

organic

vegetarians

Yes

classification apellation

Adelaide hills

residual sugar

2.2g/l

vineyard name

Piccadilly Valley

food match

Roast Guinea Fowl

total acidity

6.2g/l

wine ph

3.22

makers name

Andrew Hardy

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