A rich, bold Chardonnay is the ‘flagship’ wine that represents the trademark house style of Scarborough Wine Co.

Scarborough Yellow Label Chardonnay is the face of classic Hunter Chardonnay with the body and personality to match. The wine is showing good melon and butterscotch characters on the nose and the palate is full, round and rich with a strong lingering aftertaste of cashews, honey and green melons.

The fruit for this wine is sourced from Scarborough’s Gillards Road property and other vineyards from the Hunter Valley with the same soil type; a deep hillside red/brown terra rossa of limestone parentage. The fruit is machine picked in the early hours of the morning when it has reached a good balance of sugar, flavour and acid.

In the winery the fruit is handled oxidatively, crushed, pressed and pumped to stainless steel tanks. Once settled the clear juice is racked and then inoculated to start fermentation. When fermentation is about a third through, the fermenting juice is transfered to French oak barrels of varying age. Fermentation is completed in barrel and then malo-lactic fermentation is allowed to occur naturally to between 10 to 30% and the lees are stired monthly. The wine is pumped out of the barrel to stainless steel tanks and is then bottled 12 months prior to release.

Enjoy Scarborough Yellow Label Chardonnay with seafood, crustaceans, game birds and white meats. Perfect with a dish of scallops and cauliflower puree.

Buy Scarborough Yellow Label Chardonnay 2015 at Dan Murphy’s