Decades 2023/24 Chardonnay

Steve Flamsteed (Giant Steps) and Brad Rogers (Stone & Wood Brewing Co) have been friends since their Roseworthy days. Their new venture is a vineyard in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley.

The Decades vineyard began life as ‘Touchwood’, planted by the Sextons in 1990 to pinot noir and chardonnay on a north-facing hill on the ‘Woodlands’ property at Tea Tree. The famed black clay soils of the Coal River Valley have a calcareous base here. Rogers and Flamsteed have planted an additional 8ha to the 3 existent hectares when they purchased in 2022. Most of this extra is pinot noir.

Vineyard notes;The fruit was hand-picked, sorted and whole bunch pressed straight into a selection of large format seasoned French oak barrels for wild fermentation. Half the barrels went through a spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The result is a citrus, elegant wine with a lovely underlying acidity - subtle with plenty of fruit presence