The Wine Front über:
Griffins Road Chardonnay
-- The Wine Front: A huge and complex history with this site, one that the Latta family oversees now, but basically there’s been longstanding vineyard and mixed agriculture here and proximate for a length of time that stretches back to the period of 1860-1880. Anyway, now a younger gen family owns this site and Owen and co get involved in farming and winemaking. This, as per all Eastern Peake chardonnay, is whole bunch pressed, wild fermented, no filter/fining, minimal intervention to its path in glass. It’s a success, and a wine of flavour, texture, concentration and vitality. Whiffs of green apple, sea spray, just-ripe pineapple a thing here in scent and flavour, fennel, marzipan, salted almonds, peanut brittle and bright lemon. The palate swishes with succulence and suppleness, a little crunch of acidity, brine is strong in the mineral department, ginger, apple, lime, more of that pineapple business, cashew to taste. Wonderful. Great all up, such an enjoyable drink and with such vim and vigour and interest. What ho!