Moorooduc Estate The Moorooduc McIntyre Vineyard Chardonnay 2013
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Pale green/gold in color with aromas of citrus fruit, lemon blossom, honey and hazelnut. The palate reflects the aromatics with good intensity, texture and length with plenty of acid to provide balance. This young wine has the tightness and complexity to reward cellaring, but can be enjoyed in its youth.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A single-vineyard wine made from oldest vines, the 2013 The Moorooduc McIntyre Vineyard Chardonnay is a little mute though reveals a slight wet-pebble and crushed-stone character with some struck match, apples and green mangoes along with hints of lemon zest. Medium to full-bodied, taut and restrained on the palate, there is nicely balanced acidity and a lovely silky texture to lend elegance to the long, mineral finish.
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With a degree more alcohol than Moorooduc's 2013 Robinson bottling, this is a riper, even more richly textured example of Chardonnay. There's a hint of warmth on the finish as a result, but overall it keeps a fine sense of balance. Toast, brown sugar and caramelized pineapple notes lead the way, backed by hints of melon and citrus. Drink now.
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Established in 1982 by Richard and Jill McIntyre, Moorooduc Estate is a small, family run wine business that has developed an enviable reputation for complex and food friendly wines.
Moorooduc Estate's philosophy in everything they do is to make the most of top quality ingredients. Intensive, hands-on care in the vineyard, with minimal use of chemicals, produces the best possible fruit for our wines. Wild yeast ferments and minimal intervention winemaking, with a nod to traditional Burgundian techniques, allow the wines to express their site specificity, or terroir. Similarly, they aim to source ingredients for the food they serve that are seasonal, local and organic.
All the wines are made on-site in the rammed earth winery. From a very modest 20 tonne winery set up in 1987, they now have a more sophisticated facility with a small but high-quality Bucher press and an excellent Vaslin – Bucher destemmer. Since 2006 they have had the facility to chill fruit in a refrigerated shipping container which has been particularly beneficial with the warmer climate and earlier vintages we have been experiencing over recent years. In the winery, the emphasis is on gentle winemaking methods with some quality control where they believe this is important.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Extending into the sea from just south of the city of Melbourne to form Port Philip Bay in the southern state of Victoria, the Mornington Peninsula grape growing region naturally has a cool, maritime climate. A wide range of soils and topographic variations support a large diversity of wine styles within the small headland.