2024 Polperro Estate Chardonnay 750ml

Awards, Ratings & Reviews

92/100 — Stuart Knox · 2024 Vintage · Published: 28 Feb 2026 · Drinking Window: 2026–2033
“Light to medium straw yellow colour. Roast cashew, yellow peach and struck flint aromas. A full palate with toffee hazelnut over ripe yellow peach fruit. It carries good weight and density but stays focused by a fine persistent frame of acidity into a long finish. As it lingers a hint of flinty minerality is revealed, adding more character.”

About This Wine

Fresh and perfumed, with aromas of fresh-picked citrus carrying a candied, gently dehydrated character, alongside lifted mineral and saline notes.

A concentrated core of citrus and stone fruit is balanced by refined barrel lees complexity, adding depth and shape. The palate closely reflects the nose, showing bright citrus and stone fruit concentration through a generous mid-palate.

Barrel fermentation contributes texture and complexity, finishing zesty, energetic, persistent, and mineral.

Winemaking

The fruit is handpicked between three batches and whole bunch pressed using a gentle champagne press cycle. No enzymes or sulfur are used at the press tray and the juice is oxidatively handled to get rid of oxidative enzymes early on in the wine making process.

The wine is left at ambient and transferred to barrel with full solids and minimal sulfur added.

Fermentation occurs using wild yeast and is then left unsulfured to the following summer at which time most of the wine has completed full malo-lactic fermentation. A minimal amount of sulfur is added in the spring and left in barrel for a total of 12 months where it is racked off gross lees and into tank.

The resulting wine is bottled using no finings and minimal filtration.

About the Producer

We grow, make and farm our vineyards using a philosophy of sustainability and regenerative agriculture, applying a mix of biological, biodynamic and organic practices.

Specifications

• Vintage: 2024
• Grape Variety: Chardonnay
• Region: Mornington Peninsula / Victoria / Australia
• Vineyard: Talland Hill ‘new block’ vineyard (Red Hill); Mill Hill vineyard road block (Red Hill)
• Drinking Window: 2026–2033