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Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023

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Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023
Producer Murdoch Hill
Region, Country Adelaide Hills, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 6
Product Code 24364-750
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Fruit for 2023 Tilbury was sourced from Lenswood Vineyard (80%), with the balance coming from the usual Piccadilly growers that have previously contributed to this wine. The Lenswood site’s fruit is more open and generous, providing a compelling contrast to the tight, linear Piccadilly material. Its fruit is from own-rooted I10v1 clone vines planted in 1989 and Bernard 76 and 95 clones planted in the early 2000s. The Piccadilly vines are at 500 metres and have varied soils of sandstone, sandy loam and ironstone, contributing fruit with a classic flinty expression and powerful drive.

The fruit was picked by hand and pressed as bunches to barriques, puncheons and some Stockinger vessels for fermentation (about 30% new wood this year). The wine underwent full malolactic conversion and had some light lees stirring over eight months of maturation.

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Murdoch Hill Tilbury Chardonnay 2023

Reviews

“It’s so flinty and firm. Ozone and struck match with pumice and green apple lime. Very grippy and chalky, though some will like the juice-meets-hot-flinty moments here. Quite bitter and sour lemon zone things going on with green apple and pink grapefruit both at their bitter, pithy apex. Very precise, Breathy with that flinty funk. Light nougat in here too. But geez the chalk and firmness is a thing. Take your time.”
92 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
“A very cool and wet vintage for the Hills would've brought with it many challenges, not that you'd sense it here. The wine saw full mlf to combat the austerity of acids, and while it is still extremely tight and coiled in its youth, this will relax with bottle-age into something remarkable. Citrus, both lemon and lime, with some grapefruit pith and curry leaf, a thread of salinity flush with white stone fruit and crushed rock. It's tantalising, electric and bound to reward patience.”
95 points, Katrina Butler, The Wine Companion

Reviews

“It’s so flinty and firm. Ozone and struck match with pumice and green apple lime. Very grippy and chalky, though some will like the juice-meets-hot-flinty moments here. Quite bitter and sour lemon zone things going on with green apple and pink grapefruit both at their bitter, pithy apex. Very precise, Breathy with that flinty funk. Light nougat in here too. But geez the chalk and firmness is a thing. Take your time.”
92 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
“A very cool and wet vintage for the Hills would've brought with it many challenges, not that you'd sense it here. The wine saw full mlf to combat the austerity of acids, and while it is still extremely tight and coiled in its youth, this will relax with bottle-age into something remarkable. Citrus, both lemon and lime, with some grapefruit pith and curry leaf, a thread of salinity flush with white stone fruit and crushed rock. It's tantalising, electric and bound to reward patience.”
95 points, Katrina Butler, The Wine Companion

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