Salo Chardonnay 2025

Fruit is from the Full Moon vineyard on red and brown volcanic soils in Gladysdale. This will be the last bottling from this site as the wine moves forward into its next vineyard chapter, more to come on this. It is whole bunch pressed, gravity fed to seasoned puncheons on full solids. Wild fermentation, 50% went through malolactic fermentation. This is a wine that chimes with high florals, a waft of wattle blossom and honeysuckle. Yellow plums, white peaches and just ripe mandarin skin. There is a river stream running over blue washed stone and white pumice. Folded whipped meringue and young almond mid pate creaminess that perfectly suits the buoyancy of citrus and flowers. Alive, pulsating with energy and verve. Drink now with angel hair pasta and sweet swimmer crab meat or cellar for another 8-10 years further, this will go the distance providing further milky tones and Marcona almond flesh in time.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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