Wild Cat Tracks

18/03/2025

Top idea!

Enjoy the ambiance of tasting excellent award winning wines from the 5 Star Winery - 2019 James Halliday Wine Companion.

17/03/2025

Even more scrummy things on the Granite Belt!

13/03/2025

Happy Riesling day!

26/02/2025

Great treat or gift! Top times.

26/02/2025

The weather is perfect..see you soon!

23/02/2025

Always a great tasting!

31/01/2025

Get in early! A fun experience.

Tickets Now Open for Truffle Hunts and our behind the scenes tours in July - https://www.trybooking.com/COPOR or visit our website at www.trufflediscoverycente.com.au

29/01/2025

Black gold on the Granite Belt!

Would you like to join us on the hunt for the elusive 'Black Gold' of the Granite Belt??

Details for this Winters tours, hunts and tastings coming soon!!

29/01/2025

Vintage has begun on the Granite Belt.. perfect time to visit!

Vintage 2025 begins😄
Beautiful Estate grown Semillon first cab
off the rank.

27/01/2025

Great day out!

24/01/2025

Great new place to stay with or without a caravan!

STANTHORPE HOLIDAY PARK THE BEST RATES IN TOWN! Book Online Camping Sites Powered Sites Family Cabins Pet Friendly Stanthorpe Holiday Park Book Your Next Stay At Our Stanthorpe Caravan Park Along The Severn River

23/01/2025

Feed your tummy and your soul!

19/01/2025

This will be a great drop for Chardonnay lovers.

𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬

🗺️ Granite Belt, Queensland 🇦🇺

For someone with a fairly young collection, opening a cellar aged wine is always pretty exciting. And when it’s from the Granite Belt (which is close to my heart, just not my house) it’s doubly so. 👏🏻

This Heritage Estate 2010 Chardonnay is made by Master of Wine, Peter Scudamore Smith.

🍇 Fruit for this wine comes from two Granite Belt vineyards located 25 km apart: 20% from Ballandean in the southern part of the region, at 820m altitude, and 80% from the Cottonvale vineyard, found north of Stanthorpe town, at a higher elevation of 960m altitude. 🗺️

100% Chardonnay, over two dates it was hand harvested with select bunches transported by bin to the winery. 🛻 The grapes were whole bunch pressed and the wine wild fermented in French oak hogsheads and barriques (40% new). It was then matured in oak for 8 months without malo, batonage or additions - and bottled in March 2011 - before bottle ageing for a massive 12 years prior to release. 📝

The intention being to pour (now) in its optimum drinking window, which is pretty special, especially if you love Chardonnay (like I do) with a bit of age on it.

Wonderful aromas leap from the glass - lemon blossom 🌸, golden apple 🍏, baked pear 🍐, brioche, baking spices and faint ginger 🫚. Medium+ bodied and wonderfully layered, the palate shows preserved lemon 🍋, grilled pineapple 🍍, subtle nutty notes and vanilla spices. Rounded, faintly textural, smooth and so flavoursome, acidity is bright and the finish lengthy.

All up, a wonderful wine, ageing gracefully. It’s certainly in a beautiful place - as you’d expect and hope after such a lengthy time, resting in the cellar.
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07/12/2024

Perfect indeed.

Perfect afternoon for a sparkling rosé! 🌞

25/11/2024

Santa’s helpers have a list!