A vertical of the Blue Poles Chardonnays from 2021 to 2024, just in time for Christmas.
 
Bottle 1:             
2021 Chardonnay: While 2020 may have been the first vintage of our Chardonnay, 2021 was the first time I had an appreciation of what to expect.  A cooler year which pushed picking dates out a little, but ripeness was reached with lots of stone fruit and nougat in the resulting wine.  Has aged extremely well, some savoury notes and extended length has come into play.
 
Bottles 2:       
2022 Chardonnay:  This was a warm vintage, and the wines made were rich and full showing all the best characteristics of a great year.  Vines now more settled and with a larger canopy the tonnage has crept up, and the flavours were starting to preserve some citrus notes to align with the stone fruit characters.  Such a morish wine.
 
Bottle 3:             
2023 Chardonnay: Vines are now settled and producing solid flavours, with the 2023 vintage starting to push a more complex wine – one that does not settle into a same same after each sip sip.  Feeling a bit more confident in the pruning and the picking dates, and grateful for the team at Fraser Gallop who treated this wine with kid gloves as they basket pressed the wine for me before placed into a pair of barrels for a wild ferment.  Complex and delicious.
 
Bottles 4-6:             
2024 Chardonnay: One of only two wines made from this vintage at Blue Poles – and I must admit we got lucky with this wine as the vines handled the heat well and losses to sunburn was limited due to solid canopy cover.  Picked early but having started early in September the time on the vine from budburst was quite similar to 2023.  Apple, peach and pear which has got a nutmeg/cinnamon twist.  Really enjoying it.
 
$225 per 6-pack (postage $15 extra per case, up to 12 bottles)