Atlas Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2019
Atlas Wines
The wines from Adam Barton are some of the best sub $50 wines we’ve seen from South Australia. They capture all that has made the regions famous, yet they’re made in a sophisticated, high quality style that puts them in another class. They certainly over deliver for the money.
'a bottle of 1965 Lindemans Hunter River Burgundy (one of the greatest wines of the 20th century) lit the fire for his oenology degree. Since then he has wasted no time, working with Scarpantoni Estate (McLaren Vale), Rolf Binder (Barossa Valley), Wynns Coonawarra Estate and the iconic Californian Bonny Doon Vineyard.'
In 2007, Barton and his wife Amy purchased an 8ha vineyard on a stony ridge on the eastern side of the Clare Valley, which had been offered for sale by Kilikanoon.
Barton is totally committed to small plot, individual vineyard sites that make a strong statement about their terroir, giving the grapes he vinifies the maximum opportunity to speak loud and clear.'
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ATCH201910 UCAU
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VINEYARD
The fruit for this wine was grown at the Hill Smith Vineyard at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. The vines at this east-facing vineyard grow in alluvial loam, limestone, shale and quartz, at an altitude of around 400m.
WINEMAKING
Our approach was to celebrate this special parcel of fruit from an exceptional vineyard, not force it into a preconceived style. Grapes were hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, and the juice went straight from the press to French oak puncheons for wild fermentation on full solids. The resulting wine underwent partial (spontaneous) malolactic fermentation before being lees stirred for nine months to build texture, interest and complexity.
THE WINE
This pale-straw-coloured wine displays ripe citrus and white stone-fruit characters, with a flinty minerality, nougat and creamy yeast flavours from the lees, and subtle French oak and spice.
TECHNICAL DATA
Alcohol:13%
pH:3.40
TA:5.94g/L
Residual Sugar (GF):0.43g/L
VINEYARD
The fruit for this wine was grown at the Hill Smith Vineyard at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. The vines at this east-facing vineyard grow in alluvial loam, limestone, shale and quartz, at an altitude of around 400m.
WINEMAKING
Our approach was to celebrate this special parcel of fruit from an exceptional vineyard, not force it into a preconceived style. Grapes were hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, and the juice went straight from the press to French oak puncheons for wild fermentation on full solids. The resulting wine underwent partial (spontaneous) malolactic fermentation before being lees stirred for nine months to build texture, interest and complexity.
THE WINE
This pale-straw-coloured wine displays ripe citrus and white stone-fruit characters, with a flinty minerality, nougat and creamy yeast flavours from the lees, and subtle French oak and spice.
TECHNICAL DATA
Alcohol:13%
pH:3.40
TA:5.94g/L
Residual Sugar (GF):0.43g/L
Scores & Reviews
91 /
Huon Hooke
Creamy lees aromas lead the way with the bouquet, the aroma of fluffy yeast lees. The wine is delicate, restrained, fruit-driven and lively in the mouth, the acidity very present and seamless. Very dry finish, lean and long. Intense and lingering - a lovely drop. 23 MAY 2020. Drink 2020–2028
92 /
James Halliday's Wine Companion
This takes its time to strut it stuff. It will if you let it. Citrus and stone fruit, creamy and rich with the oak taking some control of the palate. A richer style yet with laser acidity cutting through