Wine Entry Detail

Entry Information
Exhibitor	Crooked Brook Wines
Show	2018
Class	W3
Entry Number	W3#6
Brand	Crooked Brook Wines
Wine Name	Chardonnay
Vintage	2017
Origin	Single Vineyard
Commercial Label	Yes
Availability	Restaurants and Bottleshops

Judging Results
Medal / Award	Bronze
Judge 1	deep colour, little bath salty on nose , oak slippery and rewarding but lacks some complexity and length.
Judge 2	solid, lots of powerful fruits, richer and golden in colour and spectrum, pretty oily and massive, good old school style, lacking freshness and too much artefact for fruit.
Judge 3	One can smell the heat of summer on the vines in this glass - the palate is ripe and powerful. Perhaps it does not have the delicate nuance in the top notes for it to be a gold, but this is a beautiful wine. Good length of flavour.
Associate Judge	saline nose, soapy, blanched almonds, bruised fruits, over ripe stone fruits
Associate Judge	Touch flint. SO2 reduction, funk call it what you will, lime brûlée. Great weight on palate, creamy, SO2 dominate because otherwise the fruit and complexity would be a great call.

Varietal: Chardonnay, GI: Geographe, 100%
Clone	Unknown, Roostock: Chardonnay, 100%
Soil Type	Clay,Loam
Planted	1998
Irrigation	Dripper
Growing Method	Conventional
Crop Yeild	12.00 Tonnes / Ha
Harvest Date	15 / Mar / 2017

Wine Making Information
Ferment	New Wood 100%
Maturation	Large Format Oak 100%
Cases Produced	64
Force Class	False
Winemaker Note	Peter Stanlake