2019 Ponting Pioneer Tasmanian Chardonnay

A racy Tassie Chardonnay, with a juicy mouthfeel, and fantastic natural acidity.

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From his days as an emerging young cricketer, Ricky has a special affinity for his home state Tasmania, and even though you can take the boy out of Tassie, you can’t really get Tassie out of the boy.

While the majority of the Ponting wines are out of SA, they couldn’t resist the pull of his heritage, as well as the absolute quality of Tamar Valley Chardonnay with this cuvee. With an assist by Tassie winemaking legend Jeremy Dineen, they have crafted a lean, taut, and racy wine with this exceptional fruit.

Full of citrus and stone fruits, all embraced but a nutty oak element, the wine is crisp yet textured, lean on the fruit, yet mouth-watering, with good length and acidity.

The grapes were picked early to maintain finesse. The fruit was whole bunch pressed, and the juice was minimally settled, no yeast was added allowing the wild yeast to take over the fermentation, wine was sent straight to barrel and a small percentage of new oak. After fermentation the wine was left without sulphur for a few months to allow natural malolactic fermentation to occur and to allow lees contact to increase texture. The wine was left on lees for six months.

90 Points - "Ricky and Rianna Ponting are pretty into chardonnay, or so he tells me in an interview conducted recently, so the range swivelled from South Australia to Tasmania to accommodate some ‘local fare’ and Ricky’s heritage story in Tasmania. Jezza Dineen helps down south with Ben Riggs and Ricky doing some bench blends and the like. They’ve settled on a racier style here.

Tart and tangy, clean and revitalising, a chardonnay with citrus and green apple to the fore. Scents of lime on apple, lemon soap, new tennis balls. Nice in that way, but a touch synthetic, the palate brighter and tense with acidity and leaner fruit character driving the agenda. While brisk, there’s juiciness too, not heaps but enough to get the taste buds firing and mouth-watering thing to finish. Nice drinking." Mike Bennie (Wine Front)

92 Points - "Made by Ben Riggs. A crunchy and bright Tamar Valley chardonnay of lemon, lime and Granny Smith apple fruit. Medium straw hue. Accents of spice provide interest to a focused palate of citrus vitality. With verve, energy and acid drive, it will age long and confident. " Tyson Stelzer (Halliday Wine Companion)

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