Hoddles Creek 1er Yarra Valley Chardonnay
Yarra Valley
Price Range at Release: $50-$99
Vintage: 2023
Alc %: 13.2
$ Rel: 70
A profound, layered, complete and beautifully delivered chardonnay based around a superb copre of ripe and expressive fruit, around which Franco d'Anna has built some delightful and intriguing complexity. Its intense, almost juicy bouquet of grapefruit, lemon and green melon reveals creamy, faintly meaty yeast-derived nuances and sweet, faintly toasty vanilla oak. Smooth and luscious, with a concentrated core of mouthfilling flavour, it drives long and unctuous down a chalky backbone towards a lingering savoury finish wrapped in bright, lemony acids. Classy.
Last Date Tasted: 17/09/2024
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Vintage
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Score/100
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Score/20
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Year To Drink
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2023
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95 | 18.8 | 2031-2025 | |
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2022
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92 | 17.8 | 2030-2034 | |
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2013
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93 | 18.2 | 2018-2021+ | |
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2012
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93 | 18.2 | 2017-2020 | |
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2011
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95 | 18.8 | 2019-2023 | |
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2010
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93 | 18.2 | 2015-2018+ |
Winery
Hoddles Creek
Bought in 1961 by the d'Anna family who operate the exceptional Boccaccio grocery, deli and supermarket in Balwyn, Melbourne, and who in recent years have added the exceptional Enoteca Boccaccio restaurant to the business, Hoddles Creek Estate was first planted in 1997. Today the property comprises something like 300 acres of constantly - and often quite steeply - undulating ground, through which the actual Hoddles Creek bubbles innocently from one side to the other. Around 120 acres are planted to vines. The site is typical Upper Yarra in terms of soil types and (of course) altitude, so its wines benefit greatly from a significant difference between daytime and nocturnal temperatures. Over the years Franco d'Anna (the estate's winemaker and 'farmer') has focused towards chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot gris in that order, with a keen eye still on the development of its pinot bianco. The Estate wines are indeed sourced from all over the diverse property, while the 1er Yarra Valley wines are selected from particular sites that deliver special layers of perfume, flavour and texture. The exceptional - and indeed exceptionally steep - Syberia vineyard delivers a mere 13 tonnes of beautifully shaped and perfumed chardonnay from its mean and challenging slopes, fashioning a Syberia Chardonnay of considerable poise and class.
Chief Executive(s):
Franco D'Anna
Winemaker:
Franco D'Anna, Chris Bendle
Viticulturist:
Franco D'Anna
Production Dozen:
20,000
Tonnes Processed:
300
White Wines
Sparkling
Address:
505 Gembrook Road , Hoddles Creek , Victoria 3139 Australia
Principal Wine Region:
Yarra Valley
Telephone:
03 5967 4692
Website:
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