Austin’s Chardonnay 2019

Chardonnay 2019 tasting notes

Appearance: Bright yellow with golden hues

Nose:  A beautiful toasty bouquet with notes of peach and nectarine combining with sophisticated and restrained oak use to improve complexity.

Palette: A medium bodied chardonnay with freshness of stone fruits, lemon citrus and a hint of honeysuckle. The savoury like qualities, generous crisp mouthfeel and rich texture give this a well rounded, balanced and layered chardonnay.

Enjoy with a classic pairing of roast chicken, perfect with a Spaghetti Vongole or dish it up with a burrata salad.

Food that pairs well with Austin’s Chardonnay?

• Lighter meat and seafood dishes
• Creamy or buttery pasta
• Roast chicken

The richness of this chardonnay means it can be paired with lighter meat and seafood dishes, cream-based pasta or rich butter-based sauces. Ideal with a traditional roast chicken, eggs with hollandaise or seared scallops. Serve this wine with pumpkin ravioli in a burnt butter sauce to really make the wine sing.

Chardonnay was one of the first varieties planted at Austin’s making them some of our oldest vines. The vines are planted in short, north-south facing rows. The short rows allow us to pick multiple small batches.

Cool climate regions, like ours in the Moorabool Valley, excel at producing chardonnay due to its elegant, subtle and buttery ripe flavours, compared to warm climate regions that produce chardonnays with tropical fruit flavours at the core. When picked at the right time, our chardonnay boasts citrus-driven characteristics of lemon and lime balanced by the sweetness of peach and nectarine.

Austin’s Vineyard

Austin’s has been located in the heart of the Moorabool Valley since 1990, a cool climate wine region steeped in rich history. Nestled between Geelong & Ballarat, the Moorabool Valley’s small, family run vineyards provide rich and intense low yield fruit, an ideal terroir for producing award-winning wines.

The Austin’s Estate is across 1,500 acres, with 150 under vine. The land boasts rich volcanic, limestone soils and a terrain that sits in a rain shadow.

Sitting on the ocean floor some 20,000 years ago, this land has been reclaimed by millennia of volcanic activity. Geelong’s Moorabool Valley sub-region has a tough limestone and basalt base. This gives the sub-region its unique terroir and provides the ideal free-draining soil for our grapevines.

Moorabool Valley’s cool climate is continental by nature but still moderated by its proximity to the ocean. This provides perfect conditions to grow world-class wines. All vines are planted north–south and trained vertically. The canopies are managed to provide enough light and air into the fruit zone to maximise vine quality and health.

Careful irrigation during the growing season provides healthy vine growth and even ripening which is the key to quality fruit.

Read more about the Moorabool Valley region here.

Winemaking: 

Individual batches are hand picked and transferred quickly to press for the gentlest extraction collecting only 600 litres per tonne. Pressed directly to French oak barrels of which 30% is new. Fermentation is 100% wild in temperature controlled room at 15C to retain delicate aromatics and flavours.  Towards the end of ferment the barrels are stirred regularly and topped fortnightly. The resulting wine is left on lees for nine months to provide further textural mouthfeel.

Vintage 2019:

2019 season consisted of low rainfall, cool to mild springtime ripening conditions and an extreme summer heatwave. This meant we had a milder growing period over spring and a fast and furious vintage. Although a challenging growing year we managed to successfully pick the fruit at the perfect point. This resulted in a riper, more fruit driven and juicy wine compared to the structured wines of 2018.

Shipping

We know you’d love to be drinking your wine as soon as possible. That’s why when you buy chardonnay online with us, we will dispatch your order within 24 hours of your placing it.*

We are located in the Moorobool Valley, Victoria. We use either a courier, Fastway or Australia Post depending on the location. Orders are picked up our orders every afternoon at 3pm. Once fulfilled, you will receive an email confirming it’s dispatch with a tracking ID so you can follow it the entire journey.

How much does it cost?

Free shipping for most metro orders with any purchase over $99.

For any purchase under $99:

• VIC – $10
• Every other state $20

When will it arrive?

• Geelong – 1-2 Business Days
• Melbourne – 1-2 Business Days
• Rest of Victoria – 1-2 Business Days
• NSW/ACT – 2-3 Business Days
• SA – 2-3 Business Days
• TAS – 4-5 Business Days
• QLD – 5-7 Business Days
• WA – 7 Business Days
• NT – 7 Business Days

If you order hasn’t arrived within this time frame, please contact us so we can chase it up for you.

* In warmer months we will not dispatch orders on Friday to avoid heat issues with wine during transport. During sale times please allow 48 hours for dispatch. 24 hours refers to next business day.

Returns

We are very confident in the quality of our wines. If you buy this chardonnay online and for any reason you feel the wine is not up to standard, follow these steps to enable a refund:

1. Notify us within 30 days of your delivery that you will like a refund. Any feedback during this time would be appreciated.
2. We’ll send you a return shipping label and you can book in a pick up address and time that suits you.
3. Upon inspection of the goods returned, if they are in the same condition as to how they were sent*, we will issue a refund to you.

*’Same condition to how they were sent’ simply means – no damaged labels, wine must have been stored in appropriate temperature conditions (not in a freezer or in direct sunlight or in damp conditions). The shipment is to be sent back in the original box and include the empty bottle of wine you have consumed to ensure the package is shipped safely.

If for some reason the wine was delivered to you damaged, simply take a photo of the stock and we will send a replacement.