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Gentle Folk Basket Range Chardonnay 2024
A vineyard we have been working with for some time but the first single vineyard release from it - 2.5 ha in Basket Range, across the valley from our home, its very steep. beautiful and surrounded by native forest. Similar in profile to Ashton, the Basket Range vineyard has some beautiful red clay soil and a northerly aspect resulting in a wine with boldness and texture and some beautiful stone fruit characters and retaining that great line of acid we get in the Hills.
Vineyard: Somerset, Basket Range
Planted: 1996
Clones: I10V1
Elevation: 440m
Aspect: N
Soil: Light loamy clay over sandstone with extensive schist and quartz rubble.
Vinification: Whole bunches were pressed to tank for settling over night before racking off heavy solids to barrel. The wine spent 11 months in French and Austrian oak, 20% new, before racking to tank for three months and then bottled. 100% full malolactic fermentation.
Harvest date: 27 February 2024
Bottled: 23 May 2025
Alc: 13.1%
pH: 3.33
TA: 5.4 g/L
Production: 1501 bottles
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