Ashbrook Estate Chardonnay
$2999each
$359DOZEN
WineryAshbrook Estate
Fruit Chardonnay
Regions Margaret River
  Western Australia
Each $29.99
$359.00
Available by the dozen
Hailed at inaugural release by industry savant James Halliday as the nation's finest Chardonnay, Ashbrook is crafted from harvests of Old Chardonnay Mendoza clone, picked off parcels of forty year old vine and assembled with a small block of Clones 3 and 5 transplanted from neighbouring Leeuwin Estate. The long, balmy ripening seasons at Wilyabrup encourage development of the most intense varietal characters, a big boned, dimensional Chardonnay, enhanced through a course of new French oak ferments and extended term on lees.
Ashbrook are the archetypal Margaret River boutique winemaking estate. The dedicated team strive to achieve perfect balance between parcels of the highest quality Chardonnay and treatments in fine French oak. Ultimately the wine remains essentially driven by fruit, maintaining sound structue and clear definition. Grapes are picked fully ripe and in excellent condition, displaying attractive varietal characters. Half the wine is fermented and matured in new French oak barriques over the course of several months without any battonage or malolactic treatments, preserving the distinctive expression of Margaret River and highlighting the primary fruit characters of solidly structured west coast Chardonnay.
TASTING NOTES
Light straw yellow hues. Intense bouquet of varietal fruit, rich peach, melon aromas and light oak characters. A long flavoursome palate displaying strong and complex fruit flavours. It's virile aromatics and engaging palate is matched by substantial textures and luxuriant barrel ferment flavours, grapefruit and vanillan, cashews, nutmeg and clove.
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Regions Margaret River
  Western Australia
  Each $25.99
  $311.00
Available by the dozen
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Ashbrook Estate Chardonnay
WineryAshbrook Estate
Fruit Chardonnay
Regions Margaret River
  Western Australia
  Each $29.99
  $359.00
Available by the dozen
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Ashbrook Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
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Fruit CabernetSauv Merlot PetitVerdot CabernetFranc
Regions Margaret River
  Western Australia
  Each $59.99
  $719.00
Available in cartons of six
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WineryAshbrook Estate
Fruit Shiraz
Regions Margaret River
  Western Australia
  Each $24.99
  $299.00
Available by the dozen
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More About Ashbrook Estate Winery
Australia's pre-eminent wine authority and critic, James Halliday has awarded Ashbrook Estate a five red star rating, an accolade afforded to Australia’s finest wineries
Established by the Devitt family in 1975, Ashbrook produced its first commercial wine (Riesling) in 1979 and its 30th vintage in 2008. Only handpicked estate grown grapes are used. All the processing, winemaking, bottling and packaging are closely controlled using the Estate's own state of the art facilities. Extensive use of the sophisticated lyre trellising system in the vineyard maximizes flavour potential and allows Ashbrook to produce only a premium label for each grape variety. Ashbrook Estate»