Rosemount Giants Creek Chardonnay 1996

Chardonnay from Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia

88 Wine
Spectator

Sold Out - was $20.49

OFFER 10% off your 6+ bottle order

Ships Thu, May 2

You purchased this 8/27/23

Limit Reached

You purchased this 8/27/23

Rosemount Giants Creek Chardonnay 1996 Front Label

Product Details

Varietal

Chardonnay

Region

Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia

Producer

Rosemount Estate

Vintage

1996

Size

750ML

Your Rating

0.0 Not For Me NaN/NaN/N

Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The Giants Creek vineyard is located at the very head of the Upper Hunter Valley, where the Goulburn River (a tributary of the Hunter) forms the pass leading through the mountains from Sandy Hollow to Mudgee. The countryside is extraordinarily beautiful and the location of the vineyard dramatic, being bordered by a sheer sandstone cliff which forms an impressive backdrop to the valley. The upper slopes of the vineyard have a topsoil comprised of sandy loam and weathered sandstone. This lightly structured soil and gentle slope of the vineyard produces fruit with the ability to develop high levels of elegant varietal flavours at an early stage in the ripening cycle. This in turn enables the grapes to be harvested early in the season, thus retaining a high level of natural acidity and excellent pH.

Professional Ratings

88 Wine Spectator

Other Vintages

2001

90 Wine
Spectator

1998

87 Wine
Spectator
87 Wine
Enthusiast

Rosemount Estate

View all products

Established in 1969 by Robert Oatley and family in Upper Hunter Valley, Rosemount Estate has grown to include vineyards in the Mudgee, Orange, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek and Adelaide Hills regions, as well as the Upper Hunter Valley. Winemaker Philip Shaw works with the Oatleys. The company's best-known wines are the Roxburgh Chardonnay, Balmoral Syrah and Mountain Blue Shiraz-Cabernet Sauvignon.

Chardonnay Wine

View all products

One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.

Hunter Valley Wine

New South Wales, Australia

View all products

Most admired for citrus-driven, mineral-rich and often age-worthy Semillon wines, Hunter Valley is one of Australia’s oldest wine regions and was home to its very first commercial vineyards. The region’s warm summer nights coupled with autumn cloud cover and cool sea breezes allow full ripening and healthy acidity levels for Semillon; its diverse soils of volcanic basalt and white alluvial sands promote the development of Semillon’s delicate aromas. Hunter Valley Semillons can certainly be enjoyed in their youth but with 10 to 20 years in the cellar, the best examples develop intriguing notes of honey, browned butter and roasted nuts.

Chardonnay and Shiraz also do well in Hunter Valley.

NDF782374_1996 Item# 13346