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Long Standing Members of the elite Grange Growers Club, Kalleske's are one of Barossa's leading Shiraz growers, providing fruit from the most memorable vintages to Penfolds for decades. After five generations, Kalleske have begun to reserve the pick of crop for their own label, a highly limited luxury range destined for the most discerning connoisseurs and Shiraz enthusiasts in the know. Kalleske have collated parcels from distinguished vineyards in the ancient hamlets of Moppa and Greenock, Belvedere and Stonewell, Seppeltsfield, Koonunga and Ebenezer, superior old sites which have been husbanded by the same families for generations. Open top ferments, basket pressed and barrel aged, an unreal quality of Barossa Shiraz at the.. Superior value in old village barossa shiraz»
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Paringa Estate Chardonnay CONFIRM VINTAGE

Chardonnay Mornington Victoria
Chardonnay is a wine that Mornington does exceedingly well, the cooling maritime breezes of Port Philip Bay encourage vines to yield fruit with complex, crisp and intense varietal flavours. Lindsay McCall is gifted at constructing the most auspicious efforts across a range of styles. Estate Chardonnay is vinified entirely from fruit grown to a half hectare of the choicest plantings grown to three estate managed vineyards at Red Hill. An effusive Mornington wine with a presence of savouryness and layers of fruit, to accompany richly cooked shellfish or escalope of veal.
Available by the dozen
Case of 12
$503.00
Paringa Estate wines regularly enjoy an unmatched level of success in as many trade shows and national competitions as they are entered, the only limitation being a relatively small size of production. Chardonnay is had picked off a single block of vines on the north side of Callanans Road Vineyard at Red Hill South. Whole bunches are passed through an air bag press to obtain the highest quality free run juices. Parcels are barrel fermented in a high proportion of new Vosges and Allier French oak barriques. Paringa spends almost a year maturing on sedimentery yeasts, whilst being treated to a course of monthly lees battonage for complexity and palate richness.
Medium yellow green in colour. Savoury bouquet of grilled nuts, lemon and mineral. The palate displays citrus and stonefruit, nectarine and peach, along with the creamy nutty characteristics introduced by barrel fermentation. The mouthfeel is long and rich, finishing with subtle malolactic caramel/ butterscotch flavours and good natural acidity.
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Lindsay and Margaret McCall began their incredible journey in 1984 with the purchase of a derelict orchard on Paringa Road at Red Hill Mornington

In the search for a new vineyard property, their requirements included a north facing slope, a permanent running creek and adequate wind protection. The shade thrown by the enormous 60 year old pine trees that surrounded the property proved to be a negative, but when the trees were removed it revealed the stunning views that are now such a recognisable feature of Paringa Estate. The first vines were planted in 1985 and by 1990 the 10 acres (4.2 hectares) were fully planted.

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The early success of Paringa Estate wines was a testimony to founder Lindsay McCall’s passion and intuitive feel. Lindsay managed the ten acre vineyard and made wine, while maintaining a full time teaching job. First vintage in was in 1988 processing a mere three tonnes of fruit. With no previous winemaking experience, it involved a very steep learning curve. The 2000 vintage was made up of 32 tonnes of Estate grown fruit and 46 tonnes of purchased fruit from a number of local growers.

After a redevelopment of the winemaking operations allowing production to expand to much higher levels, the total crush in 2005 was 155 tonnes, with the majority of fruit coming from two leased/ managed vineyards in Callanan’s Road and Paringa Road. The estate's ten acre home vineyard is set to a distinctly unique Lyre or “U” trellis system using an elaborate steel frame assembly, and is now producing some of the Mornington Peninsula's best quality fruit.

In the first few years the young vines displayed serious vigour problems caused by the fertile basalt clay soils of the Red Hill region. Several trellis methods were trialled with the Lyre system being most effective at allowing a bigger vine to develop and assisting the vine to find its own natural balance. The divided canopy helps open the vine foliage up allowing better airflow and light penetration to both the leaves and fruit, assisting the ripening bunches to develop good colour and varietal flavours.

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The current winery and restaurant building was constructed in 1998 on the same site as the original smaller winery shed. The winery is made up of a barrel room built partly below ground level and with the restaurant on the second floor level above. This natural insulation ensures a cool stable temperature needed for barrel maturation. Double storey height allows very tall, narrow 10,000 and 15,000 litre storage tanks, and maximises the remaining floor space that is used to house the temporary 2 and 3 tonne open stainless steel fermenters used during vintage.

"Throughout Australia and New Zealand there are special winemakers who have received a level of respect that gives them iconic status above their peers. After producing a succession of consistently superb wines over a number vintages, Paringa Estate’s Lindsay McCall has more than earned iconic status!" -Winestate

“Winemaker Lindsay McCall has shown an absolutely exceptional gift for winemaking across a range of styles, but with immensely complex Pinot Noir and Shiraz leading the way. The wines have an unmatched level of success in the wine shows and competitions Paringa Estate is able to enter, the limitation being the relatively small size of the production!" -James Halliday

"Lindsay McCall has made the top wine in the strongly contested Pinot Noir class of the Winewise Small Vignerons Award four years in a row. Each wine received an outstanding rating. If that’s not enough to convince you that he is one of Australia’s finest hands with Pinot Noir nothing will!" -Winewise

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