Bell Hill Chardonnay 2020

The Bell Hill Chardonnay is a 7-barrel blend of the Shelf, Roadblock, and Limeworks 2009 parcels. All fruit was whole cluster pressed and had 32% new French oak in its elevage of 12 months before racking and blending with a further 9 months in tank and bottling on the 19th of January 2022 with 3.39 pH, 6.3g/L TA and 13.5% alcohol. 2,089 bottles and 106 magnums were produced. A Single Parcel Limeworks Chardonnay of 654 bottles and 96 magnums will be released with the 2021 vintage.

Ripe, intense florals with sea breeze and mineral tones underlying a sweet-fruited nose. Good phenolic presence, in the riper spectrum, gaining tension with air and time, nice, dry-extract finish. The wine is very focused, and will shed its weight, coming to white florals in aroma and flavour, the fruit tones down giving a lemon meringue citrus drive, very salivating with a ripe salinity drive on the palate showing nervosity, energy and length.