MOUNTADAM FIVE FIFTY CHARDONNAY
Screw Cap
Great value Aussie Chardonnay with great depth and a touch of oak.
Barossa Valley, South Australia
2020
13.5% ABV.
100% Chardonnay
75cl
£16.95
Price includes VAT
Tasting notes:
Pale straw-gold in colour. Vibrant and fruity bouquet, with lifted ripe honey dew melon characters, underlying peach and hints of lemon. The wine has lashings of stone fruit and citrus on the palate. It has a round mid-palate and a vibrant citrus like finish.
About the wine:
After harvest and fermentation, a portion (60%) was matured in French oak barriques with 10% new French oak and 90% 1 year and older French oak for one year with the remaining 40% tank fermented and aged in stainless steel.
About the producer:
Established in 1972 as one of Australia's pioneer Chardonnay producers, Mountadam was founded by the late David Wynn, without question one of the most significant contributors to the Australian wine industry and an important part of the Mountadam story.
Amongst his many achievements, David Wynn is credited with the invention of the wine cask; he founded Wynn's Coonawarra Estate and transformed Coonawarra reds during the 1960s and '70s.
In selecting the land for the Mountadam vineyard, Wynn was the first to recognise the potential of a cool, elevated site to produce wines of great elegance and structure, chosing an area high above the Eden Valley, which he named High Eden. At 550m above sea level, Mountadam is in fact the most elevated vineyard in South Australia.
Current owner David Brown bought the estate in 2006 and one of many significant investments included the instalment of Con Moshos as head winemaker, following a distinguished 23-year career making fine wines at Petaluma. The Eden Valley wines are gently made and lean towards cool climate, old world charm, the Barossa valley wines veer more towards new world generosity and roundness.
