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Right across the road from Jasper Hill's Emily Paddock,a precious parcel of ancient terra rosa soil was acquired and planted to vine by a baronial Mornington estate, highly accomplished growers with a consuming aspiration to grow the finest Shirazin all Heathcote. They settled on a coveted site along Drummond's Lane, strewn with unique green Cambrian shards, a sacred place to yield the top growth amongst single vineyardHeathcote Shiraz. Decades later, the vintages remain excruciatingly measured in availability. Painstakingly hand made, arcanely labelled behind the monikers, Pressings, Block F and Block C, the cherished editions of Heathcote Estate represent the Grand Cru of identifiably terroir driven, small vineyard Australian Shiraz... The likely lads of drummond's lane»
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Paringa Estate Paringa Peninsula Chardonnay CONFIRM VINTAGE

Chardonnay Mornington Victoria
An accord of choice Chardonnay harvests from four estate managed vineyards within the Red Hill subregion of Mornington. Paringa has renewed its focus on Peninsula grown fruit and have earmarked an inventory of fruit from the finest sites. Delightfully fruit driven after a brisk vinification and timely bottling, its ripe stonefruit and mandarin nose is beautiful almond milk flavours and nutty barrel ferment characters. Fine, elegant and intense, all the hallmarks of Paringa Estate.
Available by the dozen
Case of 12
$347.00
The early success at Paringa Estate wines is 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. The inaugural vintage was a mere three tonnes of fruit, it involved a very steep learning curve. Chardonnay is sourced from Paringa Estate paladin vineyards, including the Thacore property on Callanans Road and the Sea Vista site at Paringa Road. The winemaking process is almost identical to that of the Paringa flagships. Whole bunches are pressed to seasoned French oak barrels and treated to a partial wild yeast vinification on gross solids, followed by nine months maturation.
Medium to full yellow green. Bouquet is fruit driven with citrus and stonefruit characteristics, nectarine and peach in particular. The palate has similar tropical and stonefruit flavours combined with subtle nutty barrel ferment characters and good acidity. This is a lovely fresh wine that will provide excellent current drinking whilst continuing to develop.
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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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