Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 30/09-29/12/2020 (Page 12)

the grape it's all about wine chardonnay is back after a rollercoaster ride in the popularity its new-wave iteration is better than ever by peter bourne the mid-'90s with our "peaches and cream" chardonnays spearheading australia's export glass" was given to these generously flavoured success but also precipitated the decline of chardonnay as the great australian white → the fall and rise of chardonnay hardonnay is a child of the 1980s and reported the value of premium chardonnay sales grew by as much as 12 per cent over the previous year chardonnay hails from the burgundy region district and sharing the limelight with pinot noir in the sparkling wines of champagne the first chardonnay vines came to australia as part of the historic busby collection in it's australia's most important white grape commercial chardonnays only date back to the from cuttings he sourced from a plot planted in the hvd vineyard in the 1920s the momentum built through the 1980s with chardonnay sown anywhere vines were became as enthused by chardonnay as their most commercially produced chardonnays come from grapes grown in our warm riverland area but top-class chardonnay is also cultivated grapefruit and white nectarine with a crisp acid-etched taste chardonnay grown in a warm climate goes beyond the peaches and cream to overt to restrain these over-the-top styles with a few oak and malolactic fermentation were the change that converts harsh green malic acid for building character and complexity in chardonnay but when applied in a heavy- consumers reacted to these overt styles by spurning chardonnay in favour of fresh passionfruit-flavoured sauvignon blanc australian winegrowers spent the next decade re-appraising where to grow and how to make by excessive winemaking artifice - chardonnay cheap but it's the good stuff that's leading the wine's renaissance flavours of white stonefruit and a racy citrus- stack up well against burgundian benchmarks especially on a quality-for-dollar yardstick vintagecellars.com.au