2021 Zonte's Footstep Apple Betty Chardonnay

• Producer: Zonte's Footstep
• Varietal: Chardonnay
• Region: Adelaide Hills
• Alcohol: 13.0%
• Net volume: 750ml
• Vintage: 2021
• Cellar until 2028

Golden yellow straw colour, with yellow hue. Displaying honeysuckle, stone fruit, apple blossom and spice on the nose with a palate loaded with plush clingstone peach, baked apple, and fig up front. These primary characters merge with deeper notes of creamy cashew, oatmeal, pie crust and rich honey all entwined on a line of lemon acidity, culminating with a dry finish of tangerine pithy appeal.

Sourced from the higher climbs of the Adelaide Hills where the moderate days and cool nights help provide a beautiful acid line and fruit purity. This Chardonnay was destemmed and pressed to a mixture of new and old large format French oak puncheons. The ferment was allowed to start naturally providing a funky element prior to the addition of a commercial yeast to ensure the subsequent wine finished dry and clean. The barrels were lees stirred fortnightly to add some mid palate weight and mealy complexity for ten months before being blended together and filtered prior to packaging.

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