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       Limited,

Offer.

To celebrate Chardonnay May in the Adelaide Hills – enjoy a Twin Pack of M3 Chardonnay, including the just-released 2017 Aged Release M3, alongside the 2023 vintage.

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Twin Pack
Aged Release + Current Release
Perfect gift for Mother's Day

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2023

Shaw + Smith
M3 Chardonnay

2017

Shaw + Smith
M3 Chardonnay

2023

Shaw + Smith
M3 Chardonnay Magnum

2023

Shaw + Smith
Lenswood Vineyard Chardonnay

Notes

Style

2017
Re-releasing in tiny quantities under the Shaw + Smith maturation program; allowing the wines to gain a level of complexity from careful bottle aging in our temperature-controlled cellar.
From a cool and late vintage with above average rainfall. This wine is delicate and detailed, but not at the expense of flavour. The palate is long and opulent, showing lovely tertiary characters of hazelnut from time in bottle.

2023
Energetic and intense with notes of lemon curd, grapefruit pith and ginger snap. The wine has beautiful natural acidity and a weight and complexity that is a triumph of the season.

Season

2017
There was record rainfall throughout the growing season but importantly it reduced to average in November during flowering and was dry during March, the later part of ripening. Record low temperatures were also recorded resulting in a late, very cool vintage.

2023
Our third La Nina influenced season in a row, 2023 was late, cool and wet. The result was the latest to ripen vintage that we’ve experienced, excellent acidity and lovely cool season flavours. While high rainfall coupled with slow ripening posed some challenges, careful viticulture allowed varieties like Chardonnay to shine, and the payoff was some terrific fruit when it was finally ready to pick.

Vineyard

2017
Predominantly from our Lenswood Vineyard, at 455–500 metres elevation. Undulating with east and west facing aspects, the soils are brown loams over clay with broken shale on the ridges. The vineyard was planted in 1999.

2023
From our grower vineyards in Piccadilly and Lobethal and our exceptional Lenswood Vineyard, at 455–500 metres elevation.

Vinification

2017
Hand picked and whole bunch pressed. Fermented and matured on lees in French oak barriques and puncheons.

2023
Hand-picked grapes are whole bunch pressed, then gently squeezed to the finest French oak barrels for fermentation. Here they spend nine months undergoing primary and secondary (malolactic) fermentation. Batches are then blended in stainless steel vats before bottling.

Maturation

2017
Although our wines always drink well on release, they age well too. To allow these wines to be enjoyed with bottle age we keep a little back each year.

2023
Now until 2030.

M3 Chardonnay Twin Pack

2x 750ml