Woodside Valley Estate Le Bas Chardonnay 2004
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Easily one of the best New World Chardonnay. Made from ripe fruit and aged in French oak for 8 months. Robert Parker gave this wine a 92, and it's ready to drink!
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Release Notes:
Alexandre le Bas de Sainte Croix was a Captain, and second in command on the Géographe, the lead ship in Baudin’s expedition, and is also the namesake of the Le Bas Chardonnay. This vintage experienced uncharacteristically cool weather at the start of the growing season, but ripened well, developing elegant fruit. Made from old vines, the wine spent 8 months in new French barriques before bottling. This wine received 94/100 in James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion 2007.
Tasting Notes:
Golden yellow in color, this is a very aromatic wine with citrus (lime), peach, vanilla and cinnamon aromas. It offers a refreshing palate with great acidity and balance, excellent multi-layered fruit, mineral and oak flavors and extremely long length. This is the perfect white for entertaining or any nice meal; serve it with lobster, poultry, Indian cuisine, smoked salmon, or shrimp scampi. This wine can age for 5 to 8 years and will develop gentle biscuit characterisitics and complexity.
The lush vineyards of Woodside Valley Estate.
Winery:
Woodside Valley Estate is one of the very best wine producers in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. When we visited them two years ago, they were just beginning to... Read more
Region:
The Margaret River region is the westernmost part of Western Australia. Surrounded on three sides by water, it receives the strongest maritime influence in the area, benefiting from the cool breezes... Read more
Country:
Overview
Australia is one of the most technologically advanced wine regions on earth and has experienced a wine boom in the past decade due to the approachability and quality of its... Read more
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