Personalised Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2024 12.8% 750ml

Personalised Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2024 12.8% 750ml

Tasting Notes

Palate
Great flavour, bright acidity and balance.

Vinification
At Giant Steps, we hand pick 100% of our fruit and fastidiously hand sorted in the vineyard . The grapes are then transported to the winery and put into the cold room over night to cool down to 4 deg C before pressing the day following. Chardonnay is always whole bunch pressed either directly to barrel or pressed to tank before immediate transfer to barrel with full solids. The wine is wild fermented in French oak puncheons, 15% of which is new while the balance is seasoned. We allow the ferments to get warm, and stir ferments daily to encourage fermentation and build texture. The level of malolactic fermentation (MLF) is dependant on season. In 2024 10% of the barrels went through MLF. Post fermentation, we sulphur and then hold the barrels in a reductive environment on full lees with no stirring until blending and bottling in November.

Vintage notes
The 2024 vintage is a more classic Yarra season. A cool start to spring and ideal flowering conditions lead to good fruit set and moderate yields. December was cool and mild, with significan rainfall at New Years and during the first week of January giving the vines a good drink leading into the heat of February. Mid to late February was drier and warmer than is common in the Yarra, leading to great ripening conditions with no disease pressure and a quite fast vintage. In 2024, all of our Pinot and Chardonnay was ready in quick succession, leading to a compressed harvest - with the whole valley picked in the space of 3 weeks (where it normally spreads across 6 weeks).

Country: Australia
Region: Yarra Valley
Vintage: 2024
Variety: Chardonnay
Alcohol volume: 12.8
Closure: Screwcap
Volume: 750
Weight: 1.383kg
Wine style: White (Medium Bodied Oaked)