Swinging Bridge Caldwell Lane Chardonnay 2023 (75cl, 12.7%)

Swinging Bridge Caldwell Lane Chardonnay 2023 is a white wine from Orange, Australia, made from Chardonnay. The fruit comes from two blocks at the Caldwell Lane vineyard, one flat with nutrient-rich soils and one northwest-facing with a rocky shelf and well-draining soils. The fruit is handpicked, pressed to tank, racked to barrel with some solids and fermented, then held in barrel for 10 months with stirring. The barrels include 20% new hogsheads and puncheons, with the rest up to five years old. It shows ripe stone fruit and green apple with vanilla, with a medium-bodied palate of stone fruit and melon and integrated creamy vanilla oak.