{"title":"Tolpuddle","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"tolpuddlechardonnay2019-750ml","title":"Tolpuddle Chardonnay 2024 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98 \u0026amp; #1 Australian Wine of the Year 2025 James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWow. This sits on the edge of reduction, expressing both power and minerality with aromas of struck match, lemon confit, crushed stones, sweet spices, grapefruit and apple blossoms. The palate is highly strung with striking acidity, balanced by a generous, rounded yet restrained mouthfeel. You could easily be in one of the great Climats of Burgundy. Truly excellent from one of Australia’s most celebrated producers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98pts Australian Wine Companion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOoh-boy the Tolpuddle Chardonnay is in a good place. I guess you could call this vintage a 'classic'. A little more restraint and line than the '23; a little more filigree and nuance, those flinty\/struck-match tones a little further back in the mix and woven through the wine in an intricate pattern. White peach, lemon, grapefruit and nectarine fruits are high fidelity and beautifully poised, suffused with soft spice, clover and grapefruit blossom, crushed stone, cinnamon, a murmur of vanillin oak and spiced poached pear, grilled hazelnuts, crème fraîche and a whisper of onshore breeze. Everything is in sharp relief, with the purest of fruit. It's all detail and tension, with a textural glaze of grapefruit pith and a sapid, mineral line that builds like a crescendo before releasing, finishing long and true. It's a stunner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI recently tasted the 2024 Chardonnay at a restaurant, and the wine looked every bit the Tolpuddle we know and love: reductive, powerful, spicy, leafy and ultra long through the finish. This was a warm season, with low yields, and the result is one of volume, opulence and statement. This has purity of fruit and structure, and the line of the extract is focused and long, driving across the palate. This is a sensational wine, and it's a clear statement of the vineyard here. The talc-like phenolics really are something. It's an excellent wine and viticulture too. 13% alcohol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wine is true to the Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay style: fine and precise with firm acidity, and a combination of lightness of texture and intensity of flavour. The 2019 vintage has the natural acidity you would expect but is approachable, with flavour in the lemon citrus, lemon soda, lemon pith, spectrum. This refined cool climate Chardonnay suits many different plates, but we find it to be a perfect match with pan-fried sea scallops.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38065487184043,"sku":"9347242001367","price":79.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/products\/tolpuddle-chardonnay-2019-750ml-869770.jpg?v=1691434315"},{"product_id":"tolpuddle-vineyard-pinot-noir-2022-750ml","title":"Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother exceptional bottling from this famous producer. Deeply perfumed, brooding aromas of blue and black fruits are supported with underlying notes of forest floor, pencil shavings, pomegranate, rose petals and dried herbs. The silken palate has firmly framed, rounded tannins balanced by mineral-driven acidity. This Grand Cru-level pinot noir will last for decades to come, albeit fresh, reduced and seductive now. Brilliant. Drink or hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Australian Wine Companion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully perfumed and composed wine that comes across as a little finer in aromatic detail than the excellent '23 release. It's an amalgam of clones – 777, 667, Abel, Pommard, MV6 and some that winemaker Adam Wadewitz snaffled from Best's Great Western – all playing their part in the final blend. Vibrant dark cherry, red berry and raspberry fruit tones mesh with hints of exotic spice, a whiff of negroni, juniper, wild strawberry, almond paste, integrated vanillin oak, meadow flowers and crushed stone. Everything plays at concert pitch, with complex whole bunch (50%) notes, the gentle tension of ground-riverstone tannins and a fine, mineral line as the wine slowly trails away. A cracking release that smells and tastes of a special place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97ptsRobert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2024 Pinot Noir is supple, silky and powerful. The season was warm, and the wines I have tasted so far—with particular reference to the Pinot Noirs, although not exclusively—have been excellent. This is fresh and vibrant, with cranberry, black cherry, raspberry and field strawberry, alongside licorice and scratched blood orange. This is impressive, to say the least. It has shades of the 2023 density of fruit, but everything is ratcheted up a notch—and for the good too. 13.5% alcohol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTolpuddle Vineyard Pinot  Noir reflects the cool maritime climate of Tasmania's Coal River Valley, and the site itself is gently sloping, north-east facing, with light silica over sandstone.  The result is a beautifully aromatic and textured Pinot Noir with intensity, power, purity and complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43313634377899,"sku":"9347242041721","price":84.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/files\/tolpuddle-vineyard-pinot-noir-2022-750ml-185959.jpg?v=1703729827"}],"url":"https:\/\/redneckwinecompany.com\/collections\/tolpuddle.oembed","provider":"Redneck Wine Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}