The Venus Block derives its name from the first name of the woman who ran a grazing property on the land for many years. Situated at Pepper Tree’s own high altitude vineyard in Orange, the ‘Venus Block’ is 800m above sea level, ensuring a long cool ripening season, perfectly suited to Chardonnay. The fruit was hand picked and gently pressed to preserve delicate fruit aromas and achieve elegance and finesse on the palate.
Pepper Tree Venus Block Reserve Chardonnay 2011 is an intense, cool climate Chardonnay with flavours of stone fruits, fig and melon seductively integrated with barrel ferment complexity. A crisp and elegant style of Chardonnay, showing great purity of fruit.
The Orange region of New South Wales is one of Australia’s newest premium regions being favoured for its high altitude cool climate. Around 270 km west of Sydney, the topography and soils of the Orange region are dominated be the extinct volcano Mt Canobolas. The present day peak of the mountain is at 1400m and vineyards in the region are planted at elevations as high as 1100m with the lowest elevations in the region being 600m.
Soils in the central part of the region are derived from the basaltic lavas of the old volcano, and primarily consist of deep red to brown free draining clay loams.
Pepper Tree Wines
Address 86 Halls Road, Pokolbin NSW 2320
Telephone 02 4909 7100
Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Weekends and Public Holidays 9.30am to 5pm
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