Logan Vintage M Cuvee 2017 New South Wales Orange

Highgate Chardonnay 2019  is  from a beautiful region high up in the Central Ranges of New South Wales, Orange is increasingly recognised as a great source of premium cool-climate wines. This cool climate chardonnay has an inviting brilliant pale straw colour fruit driven stone fruits underlying acidity dry and refreshing.

One of our most highly sought after wines and a family favourite. Named after winemaker Tom Ward’s late grandmother, it truly showcases Orange cool-climate Chardonnay.

This is where things get serious for Orange – Chardonnay is a style of excellence here. One of the region’s earliest plantings is the Balmoral vineyard at an elevation of 1050 metres, famed for the great Rosemount chardonnays of the 1990s. Mrs Payten is Tom’s grandmother, with this wine first released in 2012 to commemorate her 90th birthday.

This is a style of intensity and generosity. A waxy, almost buttery texture, though this is through lees rather than oak (sees 10 months in tightly grained French barrels). Grapefruit and white peach flavours form the core, over a pleasing flintiness. A nod to the traditional style of Australian chardonnay but keeps a tautness to its frame, and most importantly, high refreshment factor