Anth’s Garden Chardonnay receives 4.5 stars from Winestate Magazine
Winestate Magazine have given our first release Chardonnay 4.5 stars!
For our first release Chardonnay from our Adelaide Hills vineyard we are pretty happy with the results rolling in.
Thank you to everyone at Karrawatta for all your hard work in the vineyards and in the winery and beyond!
In February 2016 we selectively hand-picked our Chardonnay block in the Adelaide Hills, to make our first ever Chardonnay: Anthís Garden. Under moonlight our team picked just under five tonnes of fruit, which was whole bunch pressed and only free run juice was used. One quarter of the juice went directly into old French barriques for full solids, wild fermentation, while the remainder was shared between a combination of old and new French oak barrels in varying sizes, in order to build complexity and texture in the wine. Citrus, stone fruit, apple and pear characters combine with struck flint, toasty complexity and a highly textured, beautifully soft mouthfeel, evidence of partial malo-lactic fermentation and time on lees.
Anth’s Garden is a tribute to one very special, whimsical, creative soul in our family. Share this wine with your loved ones and raise a glass to those who are no longer with us.
