JC's Own Lobethal Chardonnay 2023 Size::6 Bottle Case American and Hungarian oak for

American and Hungarian oak for 18 months and then underwent a further 24 months maturation in bottle prior to release

The soils of this site are rich in limestone and this gives the wine a lot of freshness and powdery grip

as well as some Marselan (from some old vines of a rarely seen cross between Cabernet and Grenache that Oliver likes for the acidity it brings to the blend)

almost black-tinted deep red colour

a 52 year old Blewitt Springs block owned by the Patritti family

JC's Own Lobethal Chardonnay 2023 Size::6 Bottle Case American and Hungarian oak forMade from a vineyard located at Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills at 480 metres altitude in soils of quartz and mica schist on weathered sandstone on a north facing slope. Hand harvested and whole bunch pressed with pressings kept separate. Barrel fermented in new and used French oak puncheons and barriques and aged on fine lees for 15 months bottled in July 2022 with no fining or filtration. Lively acidity works in with subtle lees aged characters