Giaconda Estate Vineyard Chardonnay
“The powerhouse wine style of Australian Chardonnay, the fabled and classic Giaconda Estate Vineyard Chardonnay is renowned for its precision, generosity, superb mineral structure and longevity.”
Bringing together everything he learnt as a young winemaker in Bordeaux, California and NewZealand, Rick Kinzbrunner produces authentic Beechworth wines that reflect a unique terroir planted in the early 1980s. The powerhouse wine style of Australian Chardonnay, the fabled and classic Giaconda EstateVineyard Chardonnay is renowned for its precision, generosity, superb mineral structure and longevity.
About Giaconda
- The powerhouse wine style of Australian Chardonnay is renowned for its precision, generosity, superb mineral structure and longevity.
- 2021 Chardonnay enters the canon of Australian Fine Wine, with 7 x 100 Point Scores.
- Planted at 400+ metres on a cooling south-facing slope on ancient decomposed granitic clay loam soils – all organically certified.
- Rick Kinzbrunner is unwavering in philosophy-fruit is hand-picked, basket pressed, gravity racked to French oak, aged 12 months in a granite maturation cave, full wild malolactic, then six months cold settling in tank before being bottled by gravity in spring (without pumping or filtration).
- “Australian Grand Cru. Absolute genius.” Andrew Caillard MW.
