A translucent cherry colour with a solid blue core, a rose-petaled nose of faint sun-kissed strawberries and stronger raspberries – just a hint of clovey, dissolved cocoa (no new oak in this young-vine single-vineyard…) and anise-tinged, deep cherry fruit behind. The gorgeous amplitude of the 2024 vintage shines through from the first taste of the wine: dark-fruited and juicily corrupt, one can sense the sun of that bygone summer, yet the elegance and coolness of the fall in the limestone-infused, slightly rustic tannic finish. We shall have to watch; we shall have to wait for this vineyard to mature… if we are ever to establish the real links between this and the older-vine Chardonnay from the Frontier Block* we have come to know so well from Grimsby Hillside…

*Will be called Clay Knoll in the next release.

A word from Mary: Lovely, generous mid-palate and delicious strawberry finish.

Drinking prime: Now – 2029

Best fruit window: A delicious peak in 2027 – 2028

Cases produced: 95