Allandale
The vineyard is 17 acres of top quality grape varieties - Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Semillon. Allandale's winemaker, Bill Sneddon, believes in a traditional style of viticulture, where the vines are tended with utmost care to ensure only full-flavoured fruit is crushed. Other varieties are selectively purchased from various vignerons in the Hunter Valley and other areas such as Mudgee, Hilltops and McLaren Vale.
While 2009 Chardonnay follows very much in the "Allandale" style it shows very rich/ ripe peach flavours balanced with new French and American oak characters. There is great length of palate from this wine and a bready complexity from aging on yeast less. The finish is crisp and fresh. A versatile wine which can be matched with a wide variety of food from seafood to veal. The 2009 Chardonnay will improve with short to medium term cellaring.
