{"product_id":"shaw-and-smith-chardonnay-lenswood-vineyard-2024","title":"Shaw and Smith Chardonnay Lenswood Vineyard 2024","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eShaw + Smith began almost on a whim in 1989, when cousins Martin Shaw — who'd honed his craft at the University of Bordeaux — and Michael Hill Smith, fresh off becoming the first Australian ever to pass the notoriously difficult Master of Wine exam, decided to make wine together. After establishing their original vineyard at Balhannah in 1999, the pair purchased an already-planted site in the cooler, higher reaches of Lenswood in 2012 — at 500 metres elevation, it's the loftiest and coolest of their Adelaide Hills vineyards, planted on brown loam over clay with pockets of broken shale to low-yielding Bernard clones. The site showed such promise that in 2014 a small selection was set aside to make its own single-vineyard wine for the first time. Today the wine is made under chief winemaker Adam Wadewitz (named WINE magazine's Winemaker of the Year in 2022) and viticulturist Murray Leake, who's spent decades studying how Lenswood's cool, high terroir shapes the fruit. The grapes are whole-bunch chilled overnight, gently pressed, and wild-fermented in new and used 500-litre French oak puncheons, spending ten months in barrel with only occasional stirring before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe result is consistently ranked among Australia's finest Chardonnays: white peach, toasted hazelnut, jasmine, and nougatine unfurl on the nose, with the oak framing rather than dominating the fruit. The palate is creamy yet restrained, precise and pithy, carried by the tight line of acidity that Murray Leake describes as the vineyard's signature — a direct reflection of its high, cool site.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shaw and Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296455209125,"sku":"5691167","price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/2597\/2133\/files\/ChardonnayLenswoodVineyard.jpg?v=1789544394","url":"https:\/\/wine.thestunnedmullet.com.au\/products\/shaw-and-smith-chardonnay-lenswood-vineyard-2024","provider":"The Stunned Mullet Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}