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A museum six-pack featuring two wines per vintage of our Ballarat Chardonnay.
2016, 2017, 2018 x Two bottles each.
2016 - 93 Points
The Sinclair Vineyard is an ace in the deck. With an elevation of 510m, the diurnal shifts in temperature ensure both ripeness and plenty of natural acid retention. Together with a sensitive hand in the cellar, flavourful wines ensue. There is considerable crunch and energy here, propelling yellow plum, white peach and quince flavours long across vanillin rails of oak (33% new) and an earthy tone of wild yeast porcini.
2017 - 95 Points
From the windswept Sinclair Vineyard in Scotsburn, this was handpicked and whole bunch pressed before wild fermentation in French oak puncheons and barriques, 28% of which was new. 2017 was a cool year in an already very cool region, resulting in a good frame for the slow development of complexity over seven years. This complexity is on show from the outset, aromatically, with lemon preserves, chalk, cheesecloth, lemon wax, and citrus salt leaping out of the glass, followed by button mushroom and a touch of honeysuckle. The palate holds a mouth-filling, chalky texture and brilliant intensity with sweet pops of nettle honey, cheese rind, button mushroom, preserved lemon and honeysuckle notes mirroring the nose. Vibrancy abounds through the palate, with the nettle notes permeating the mouth-perfume and the chalk, cheesecloth and subtle honey notes pulling to gentle length thanks to an impressive acid line. This is a delicious and complex example of an aged Victorian Chardonnay.
2018 - 96 Points
Another terrific chardonnay from Provenance. There's fruit power, but it's so controlled and so well-maintained. Apples, white peach, smoked bacon, vanilla cream and cedar spice. It's one of those wines where you see something different every time you look at it.
Vineyard
Established in 1997 at Scotsburn, on a windswept ridge 1.5 km from the base of Mt Buninyong, this site is planted in old goldfield soils. These soils, remnants of the Ordovician period, are made up of clay and sandy quartz breccia along with angular quartz pieces, sandstone, mudstone and siltstone. At 500m elevation, warm days are followed by (acid-retaining) cold nights. Vine rows run north-south and are trained to a VSP canopy.
