Style

Bright - light to mid-yellow colour, with gentle stone fruit

and green apple flavours, combined with some creamy

cashew. The palate is lively and elegant, lean and piercing,

with bright acidity and a dry finish. Expressive and rich

with excellent energy.

Vintage

2018 has resulted in excellent vintage for Bass River.

From very warm spring to an average and mild

summer, ripening conditions were ideal – long and

slow, developing wines with outstanding purity and

balance. Flowering occurred in early November, fruit

set was complete in early January and harvest was in

early March.

Source

Single vineyard - low yielding vines from the House

Block. Soils comprise fine sand loams over cemented

coffee rock. Vine age 20 years with 2,500 plants per

hectare. Cane pruned to achieve crop loads of 5.0–6.0 t/Ha.

Grapes

100% Chardonnay – Clones: Mendoza, Penfolds 58, I10v5

& I10v1

Vinification

Hand-picked, grapes were refrigerated overnight,

whole bunch pressed. Juice was transferred with full

solids to oak puncheons. Controlled indigenous

ferments occurred over 10 days in the underground

barrel room using 35% new oak. Wines remained on

gross lees until bottling, no stirring. Post-

fermentation, the wine was sulphured in-situ to

prevent malolactic conversion from occurring, and to

preserve the naturally high acidity. The wine was aged

on its fermentation lees with minimal sulphur for 10

months prior to blending and bottling after a single

filtration.