A.Rodda Smiths Vineyard Beechworth Chardonnay 2015

A.Rodda Smiths Vineyard Beechworth Chardonnay 2015When Adrian Rodda moved to Beechworth in 2010, the primary focus was to make one Chardonnay from the oldest vines in the region, the Smiths Vineyard. The Smiths Vineyard was planted in 1978 at an elevation of 550 metres above sea level at the cross over between the two soil types that define the Beechworth region; the shaley red Ordovician soil and the granitic soil. "The intensity is good and it's refined and tightly focused. Very smart chardonnay,

They are a dissonant note to this small-scale

I have too many questions about it

Gold Medal 2004 Rutherglen Wine Show

A classic Bowen Cabernet from a great year in Coonawarra – the '99 Coonawarras are generally looking much better than the much heralded '98s

despite historically keeping an ultra-low profile

At thirty-nine years of age and privileged to fanatical biodynamic care

with fruit sweetness and tangy acid buried beneath masses of tannin

the winery and cellars were built at Bay View in 1933 by Robert Bird

is made for the first time

so the barrels are never empty

The Wine Reviewer – 96 points

all offering a different expression of Central Otago Pinot Noir