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Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023

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Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023
Producer Murdoch Hill
Region, Country Adelaide Hills, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 6
Product Code 24364-750

Michael Downer’s big-ticket Tilbury Chardonnay is sourced from his equally big-ticket Lenswood Vineyard (80%), with the balance coming from the usual Piccadilly growers that have previously contributed to this benchmark Chardonnay. The Lenswood site delivers generous flavour, providing a compelling contrast to the tight, linear Piccadilly material. Its vines are own-rooted I10v1 clone planted in 1989, and Bernard 76 and 95 clones planted in the early 2000s. The Piccadilly vines are at 500 metres and have varied soils of sandstone, sandy loam and ironstone, contributing fruit with a classic flinty expression and powerful drive. The fruit was picked by hand and pressed as bunches to barriques, puncheons and some Stockinger vessels for fermentation (about 30% new wood this year). The wine underwent full malolactic fermentation and had some light lees stirring over eight months of maturation.

Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023

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Reviews

“A crushed rock flintiness to oyster shell brininess, melding with verdant hints of mint and other garden herbs, smattered amid orchard fruits and citrus. Demur, youthful, tightly coiled and in need of time. Yet the acidity is juicy rather than hard. The finish, compelling and impressively long, directed by a confluence of French and larger format Austrian oak, much in vogue. This is bound to age very well, such is the thrilling precision, succulent acidity and powerful carry-through. A lovely wine from a rising star of the contemporary Australian Chardonnay scene, Michael Downer.”
95 points, Ned Goodwin MW, Decanter
“A very cool and wet vintage for the Hills would've brought with it many challenges, not that you'd sense it here. The wine saw full mlf to combat the austerity of acids, and while it is still extremely tight and coiled in its youth, this will relax with bottle-age into something remarkable. Citrus, both lemon and lime, with some grapefruit pith and curry leaf, a thread of salinity flush with white stone fruit and crushed rock. It's tantalising, electric and bound to reward patience.”
95 points, Katrina Butler, The Wine Companion

Reviews

“A crushed rock flintiness to oyster shell brininess, melding with verdant hints of mint and other garden herbs, smattered amid orchard fruits and citrus. Demur, youthful, tightly coiled and in need of time. Yet the acidity is juicy rather than hard. The finish, compelling and impressively long, directed by a confluence of French and larger format Austrian oak, much in vogue. This is bound to age very well, such is the thrilling precision, succulent acidity and powerful carry-through. A lovely wine from a rising star of the contemporary Australian Chardonnay scene, Michael Downer.”
95 points, Ned Goodwin MW, Decanter
“A very cool and wet vintage for the Hills would've brought with it many challenges, not that you'd sense it here. The wine saw full mlf to combat the austerity of acids, and while it is still extremely tight and coiled in its youth, this will relax with bottle-age into something remarkable. Citrus, both lemon and lime, with some grapefruit pith and curry leaf, a thread of salinity flush with white stone fruit and crushed rock. It's tantalising, electric and bound to reward patience.”
95 points, Katrina Butler, The Wine Companion

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