Bright green-gold in colour with an enticing bouquet of nectarine flower and creamy citrus, this wine's complex, mealy texture has been enhanced through gentle fermentation and maturation in fine quality 100% new French oak hogsheads.
The brightly balanced, satisfying mouth-feel remains an emblematic element of the delicate power of this unique Bloodwood style. Medium term cellaring will add to your enjoyment..
Vineyard | The Bloodwood Schubert vineyard is to the east of the cellar door on a gentle undulating north-east slope of volcanoclastic loam, interspersed with mass-flow rounded cobbles of crystalline andesitic lava scattered through a quite a friable red clay base. The vines are of the FVI10V5 clone, planted in rows running north/south and trellised to a Scott-Henry trellis system opened to the protected west.
The vines are mostly spur pruned to around 50,000 buds per hectare and with each vine occupying 4.5 square meters of the vineyard, yields are no more than moderate in most years.
Varieties | 100% Chardonnay
Bouquet | Nectarine flower and creamy citrus
Palate | Nectarine, white peach, grapefruit, and melon fruit.
Alcohol | 12.6%
About Bloodwood Wines: Bloodwood is located in the wonderful Orange sub region of the Central Ranges GIC of New South Wales, at an elevation of between 810m and 860m above sea level. To fully understand the styles of wine we make at Bloodwood, you need to think of the symbiosis between wine and food. We believe good wine is really food, and that it should be explored and enjoyed in the context of a balanced meal in the company of people you honor. And as with balanced, wholesome food, good wine treated with the respect and restraint it deserves, can add enormously to your enjoyment of the best things in life.