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Bannockburn Grigsby Chardonnay 2024

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Bannockburn Grigsby Chardonnay 2024
Producer Bannockburn
Region, Country Geelong, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 6
Product Code 25413-750

Certified organic. Lucas Grigsby is a Bannockburn legend. He has been the viticultural manager for the last 35 years and knows these vineyards like nobody ever has or likely ever will. The wine named in his honour comes from just 0.87-hectres of close-planted vines that were grafted over from Shiraz in 2019. The clone is Bernard 76. Grigsby and Matt Holmes introduced the Bernard clone to Bannockburn to expand the vineyard’s clonal palette, which, in the beginning, was mostly Penfolds clones.

The soils comprise dark cracking clay over weathered basalt and limestone. The block, originally planted in 2007, houses 1.2-metre rows with 1-metre vine spacing on a north-south row orientation. The wine is whole-bunch pressed, settled overnight, and racked to barrels for a wild yeast fermentation in French oak hogsheads; approximately 25% was new oak. Malolactic fermentation occurred naturally on 100% of the blend. The wine was left on lees, unstirred, for 10 months prior to blending and bottling.

Of the three single-vineyard 2024s, Grigsby leans into a slinky, more textural style of Chardonnay. The nose is cool and focused: hints of ripe pear, yellow apple skin, and a touch of salted caramel build with grip and generosity. The site was previously called De la Roche, “of the rock”, and this wine delivers up plenty of rocky, compact structure. Then, there’s a lovely chewiness to the extract which is balanced by saline freshness and underscored by reverberating energy. A complex and layered wine that continues to evolve in the glass.


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Reviews

“Quite a lot of colour to this wine and powerful fruit up-front, though the finish is then as restrained as it is long. This is a honed wine if ever there was one. Nougat, grilled peach, steel, mineral, orange rind and lemongrass characters put on a powerful display, lemon blossom notes then rising through the finish. Despite its colour this is a wine with yet plenty up its sleeve. The length of the finish here though puts a significant positive emphasis on the quality on offer.”
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“A lovely mineral tension lies beneath layers of citrus confit, lanolin, white flowers, flint and orange peel. The palate has a fine line of acidity, with textural weight and a mineral undertone that cuts through the rounded mouthfeel. Made from a close-planted block of Bernard clone 76, 8,300 vines per hectare. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”
96 points, Ryan Montgomery, Jamessuckling.com
“Lifted and layered aromas of grapefruit pith, stone fruit, orange rind, white flowers, nutty oak, melon, spice and a touch of nettle. Powerful and mouth-filling, with a lovely core of stone fruit, nuts and creamy oak all at play. There's a plushness of flavour, but the acidity and a lick of phenolics keep it all heading in the right direction. Impressive gear.”
95 points, Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
“From a 0.4ha close-planted vineyard. Barrel fermented and matured in 25% new hogsheads and with 100% mlf. A light, bright green gold. In contrast to the slightly richer and more open Winery Block chardonnay, this is more restrained with its aromas of pink grapefruit, just-ripened stone fruits, oyster shells and almond. The palate is equally restrained and there's a touch of orange pith on the gently spicy, long finale. Will be even better when it opens up over the next two to three years. Tops.”
96+ points, Philip Rich, The Wine Companion

Reviews

“Quite a lot of colour to this wine and powerful fruit up-front, though the finish is then as restrained as it is long. This is a honed wine if ever there was one. Nougat, grilled peach, steel, mineral, orange rind and lemongrass characters put on a powerful display, lemon blossom notes then rising through the finish. Despite its colour this is a wine with yet plenty up its sleeve. The length of the finish here though puts a significant positive emphasis on the quality on offer.”
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“A lovely mineral tension lies beneath layers of citrus confit, lanolin, white flowers, flint and orange peel. The palate has a fine line of acidity, with textural weight and a mineral undertone that cuts through the rounded mouthfeel. Made from a close-planted block of Bernard clone 76, 8,300 vines per hectare. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”
96 points, Ryan Montgomery, Jamessuckling.com
“Lifted and layered aromas of grapefruit pith, stone fruit, orange rind, white flowers, nutty oak, melon, spice and a touch of nettle. Powerful and mouth-filling, with a lovely core of stone fruit, nuts and creamy oak all at play. There's a plushness of flavour, but the acidity and a lick of phenolics keep it all heading in the right direction. Impressive gear.”
95 points, Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
“From a 0.4ha close-planted vineyard. Barrel fermented and matured in 25% new hogsheads and with 100% mlf. A light, bright green gold. In contrast to the slightly richer and more open Winery Block chardonnay, this is more restrained with its aromas of pink grapefruit, just-ripened stone fruits, oyster shells and almond. The palate is equally restrained and there's a touch of orange pith on the gently spicy, long finale. Will be even better when it opens up over the next two to three years. Tops.”
96+ points, Philip Rich, The Wine Companion

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