JC's Own Lobethal Chardonnay 2023 muscat spices and delicate oak exude

spices and delicate oak exude from the glass

The vintage consisted of a long summer

It doesn’t seem too early to call this out as a new Californian benchmark for the variety

followed by nine months’ maturation on lees

A wine full of black fruit and spice with a rich

JC's Own Lobethal Chardonnay 2023 muscat spices and delicate oak exudeMade from a vineyard located at Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills at 480 metres altitude in soils of quartz and mica schist on weathered sandstone on a north facing slope. Hand harvested and whole bunch pressed with pressings kept separate. Barrel fermented in new and used French oak puncheons and barriques and aged on fine lees for 15 months bottled in July 2022 with no fining or filtration. Lively acidity works in with subtle lees aged characters