RockBare Reserve Chardonnay 2002
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Robert
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Filled with flavor, this classy cool climate chardonnay has the flavor momentum and balance to improve with age over the next five years.
The Adelaide Hills produce some of Australia's finest and most sought after Chardonnays. The cool RockBare Adelaide Hills Chardonnay has a restrained and elegant style reflective of this cool climate region.
The coolest summer on record in the Adelaide Hills has produced one RockBare's best efforts. The cool and unbelievably slow ripening period allowed for gradual flavor development, resulting in a most complex and powerful wine, that optimizes why Adelaide Hills is the home of Australia's premium Chardonnays.
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Tim gained extensive winemaking experience working at Southcorp, where he was responsible for making one of Australia's most expensive premium Chardonnays, Yattarna. But when Tim created the RockBare label in 2000, he decided to incorporate winemaking techniques that go back a hundred years or more. Using a minimal-filtering or no-filtering approach and very little oak aging, Tim makes wines with complex flavors driven by the fruit.
McLaren Vale has a moderate, Mediterranean-style climate that's ideal for growing super-high quality grapes. Spring and summer days are warm and dry. Nights are cool and breezy. Only slightly above sea level, the vale is characterized by beautiful, rolling hills with deep, rich alluvial soils that tend to be brown and red clays. Since Tim works with a wide array of grape growers, some of the grapes come from old vines and some from new. But all are highly characteristic of the grapes that produce the bright, flavorful and aromatic wines for which McLaren Vale is famous.