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Entry Information
ExhibitorCrooked Brook Wines
Show2020
ClassG2B
Entry NumberG2B#3
BrandCrooked Brook Wines
Wine NameEmma Chardonnay
Vintage2018
OriginSingle Vineyard
Viticulturist NameJ Campbell-Claus
Commercial LabelYes
AvailabilityMojos Bunbury, Old Bridge Cellars, Fremantle, Asquith Cellars Mount Claremont, Boyanup Cellars, selected restaurants, Online crookedbrookwines.com.au
Judging Results
Medal / AwardGold
Judge 1good color, great strucutre and oak treatment and drive . lovely tension on palate
Judge 2Saline, honeydew melon, length is carried by worked complexity - this has attractive phenolic grip and buckets of flint. Cooling. White pepper through the finish.
Judge 3lovely, flinty funk some greener, ur tropical fruits, lean, tight, pithy. decent.
Associate Judgea lot of toasted notes on the palate, brioche and vanilla. the acid well present in the beggining but misses a bit of fruit flavour to it.
Associate JudgeMealy, sulphides, flint, stonefruits. Generous, a hardness to the palate, ripe stonefruits with supporting citrus.
Varietal: Chardonnay, GI: Geographe, 100%
CloneUnknown, Roostock: Chardonnay, 100%
Soil TypeClay,Loam
Planted1998
IrrigationDripper
Growing MethodConventional
Harvest Date02 / Mar / 2017
Wine Making Information
FermentNew Wood 50%
FermentOld Wood 50%
MaturationLarge Format Oak 100%
Bottling Date05 / Feb / 2019
ClosureScrew
Cases Produced150
Force ClassFalse
Winemaker NotePeter Stanlake