Leeuwin, Art Series Chardonnay

Leeuwin, Art Series ChardonnayThe 2017 vintage in Margaret River was cool and wet, and it was the great producers that excelled that year, mainly by virtue of reactive and courageous vineyard management. The wine is closed for now, and it's savory and slick. It's in a quiet place now but will open up again over time. It's almost rambunctious, which flies in the face of the vintage that birthed it. The winemaking remains relatively consistent across the years, hand picked fruit

Lemon to gold ingot

complex and lingering if decidedly rustic finish that is beginning to lean out

grape production was reduced by half anyway

(two-thirds of the vines were planted in 1912 and the remainder in 1973)

It has all of the Eden Valley hallmarks

The palate is medium-bodied

There are three white wines in the Torbreck portfolio

married Jean-Denis Vacheron

My rating assumes that it will add both weight and complexity with age

delicious and vibrant medium weight flavors exude evident minerality on the clean

the wine carries us along the Corniche in an open-top car

Lovely stuff