Snake + Herring Hallelujah Chardonnay 2013
Wine Specs
Vintage
2013
Bottling Date
1753-01-01
Alcohol %
13
In Stock
Tasting Note
Aroma
ClosureScrewcap
GrapeChardonnay
Grape Variety
Maturation
Oaked0
Palate
This is a fresh lime brulee tart in a glass: lime citrus fruit with a little grapefruit, a touch of caramel and smokiness from the puncheons and a terrific pastry creaminess from the lees contact and wild ferment. The class of the fruit again shows through with the length and fine minerality poised with typical Porongurup crystalline acidity.
VarietalV_CHARDONNAY
Vinification
Handpicked and whole bunch pressed direct to French puncheons (500L oak), the whole juice was wild fermented and stayed on lees, without sulphur, for ten months. Malo-lactic fermentation is neither encouraged nor resisted.
RegionGreat Southern - WA
Region CodeDWAGRSOUTH
Region Notes
StateWA
Subregion
WinemakerTony Davis
Wine StyleWhite (Medium Bodied Oaked)
James Halliday
95
2017/08/08
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2015
This has no colour tricks up its sleeve, pale straw-green; but it does surprise with its greater verve and intensity than its Corduroy sibling, grapefruit in the vanguard, but plenty of nectarine and white peach, zesty acidity and good oak management. Porongurup strikes again.
James Halliday
96
2018/08/13
Halliday Wine Companion 2019
Gleaming straw-green; pink grapefruit, white nectarine and peach, nutty oak. Has the iron fist in a velvet glove power of Porongurup, never obvious, but always there.
Wine Specs
Vintage
2013
Bottling Date
1753-01-01
Alcohol %
13
Wine Profile
Awards
James Halliday
96
2018/08/13
Halliday Wine Companion 2019
Gleaming straw-green; pink grapefruit, white nectarine and peach, nutty oak. Has the iron fist in a velvet glove power of Porongurup, never obvious, but always there.