2024 Vasse Felix Heytesbury Chardonnay 750ml Gift Box
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A powerful vintage, weaving magnitude, poise, and layers of seductive umami overtones.
The 2024 HEYTESBURY Chardonnay makes a striking statement with its overt perfumes and flavours. This vintage release demonstrates a seamless marriage of intensity and balance, from a rare and remarkable season.
The 2024 vintage began on 17 January, the earliest harvest on record, following the warmest and earliest spring in our history. Benefiting from a seasonally wet winter and healthy, leafy canopies, the vines flourished, producing concentrated, ripe fruit with naturally vibrant acidity. Careful viticultural management by Bart Molony and the team, maintaining canopies for shade and evaporative cooling, ensured the fruit was protected in its final weeks of ripening.
The early warmth and dry conditions of the season resulted in a wine that is concentrated, while superb natural acidity has preserved the fine structure that defines Margaret River Chardonnay.
“This HEYTESBURY is an extraordinary demonstration of the powerful fruit from a unique vintage. Its rich, wild and complex character hangs off a strong line of acidity and classic phenolic tension.” Virginia Willcock.
Crafted from a meticulous selection of our Gingin clone HEYTESBURY plots, the fruit was harvested by hand, whole bunch pressed and wild fermented to preserve its power and texture. The wine matured for 10 months in French oak barriques (53% new) then harmonised on lees in tank for six months.
HEYTESBURY Chardonnay continues its storied legacy as a defining Margaret River wine, with an unmistakable sense of place.
VARIETIES: 100% Gingin Clone Chardonnay
HARVESTED: 17 January - 5 February 2024
PRESSING: Hand harvested, chilled, whole bunches pressed
JUICE TURBIDITY: Full solids (average 500 NTU)
FERMENTATION: 100% wild yeast
FERMENTATION VESSEL: French oak barrique
MATURATION: 225L French oak barriques 53% new, 47% 1-3 year old 16 months; 10 months in oak, 6 months blended in tank
BOTTLED: 29 May 2025
TA: 6.5g/L PH: 3.12
MALIC ACID: 0.39g/L
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 1.4g/L
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
VEGAN FRIENDLY: Yes
CELLARING: 2026 to 2030+ for complex, savoury Chardonnay
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