Heirloom Vineyards Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2018

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Sharing a winemaker with Dandelion Vineyards is Heirloom Vineyards, which began its life in the 2000 vintage with the intention of making exceptional wines from primarily old vineyards, planted to the best clones and embracing organic and biodynamic principles. They create wines from the McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Eden Valley, Adelaide Hills and Coonawarra which almost always pick up a bunch of gold medals and often trophies.At time of writing our selection of these fabulous wines has a tally of 32 gold medals and 3 trophies.

The first wines were released in 2007 and since then Heirloom Vineyards has picked up the following accolades: James Halliday Wine Companion - 5 Red Star producer, Melbourne International Wine Show 2017 - Adelaide Hills Chardonnay Winery of the Year, Barossa Valley Wine Show 2015 - Best Wine of Show, San Francisco International Wine Competition 2018 – Best Winery of Nation. We love these wines! 

Chardonnay sits on the fence of many a wine enthusiast. Versatile, kind in nature and oh so compliant, however for most it's still dressed in attire that's so distinctly... 90s. Shoulder pads, overalls and bike shorts saw this particular version of white wine with such a wooded vengeance, we were practically asking the chefs to take the butter out of the meals to make way for it. Thankfully however, times are a changin'. Underneath all that 90s getup reveals elegance and sophistication and Australia is doing its bit to make Chardy interesting again.

History of Chardonnay

Chardonnay has had a long and strange history in Australia. Cuttings were brought in by James Busby in 1832 and given its massive popularity these days you might imagine we’ve been slurping Chardy since then but the reality is that it wasn’t until the 1970s that Chardonnay was bottled as a single varietal and even then the labelling was as about as a transparent as a politician