2025 Estate Chardonnay

2025 Estate Chardonnay
Collection: Estate
Vintage: 2025
GI: Canberra District
Vineyard source: Estate
Harvest date: 5th March 2025
Processing: Destemmed and pressed to a mixture of oak and wine globe.
All natural fermentations, warm ferments (18-22C) then topped and mature on lees, no stirring.
Élevage: 2 years
Vessels: Seguin Moreau Icône, D. Laurent Selection, Wine Globe
Vintage conditions: 2025
A near perfect year, early rain, dry, warm but to hot. A very early season.
Bottling date: May 2026
Production: 100 dozen
Cellaring: 10 years plus
Something interesting: We've been trialling wine globes for 4 years. Seeing what they add to wine as opposed to oak, concrete, ceramics. Mainly you get this amazing clarity of variety. Like everything is amped up. If you see green apples, its like you are peeling apples. So we tend to use them as we have here, about 25% of the blend is enough to super charge the aromatics and balance the new oak components we also throw at it
Drink with: I think a perfectly prepared and delivered roast chicken or one that's been brasied in a creamy veloute. Chicken and Chardonnay, it's a thing

Ravensworth 2025 Estate Chardonnay
This is from the home grown, organic estate, and picked from a mere less-than-10–or-so-metres from winery for its wild ferment and life in quiet contemplation before bottling.

Love the lead of oatmeal, cornflakes, sour dough, vanilla wafer that come with this wine. Sea spray too, green apple, a crunch of just-ripe nectarine. It swishes around the palate with all that savouriness, a considered, loose knit feel, softness then a pleasing bite of freshnes. Such distinct pleasure here. And it’s own thing. Love it.



Rated : 95 Points
Tasted : AUG26
Alcohol : 12.5%
Price : $42
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2026 - 2030