- Colour White
- Producer Ox Hardy
- Region McLaren Vale
- Grape Chardonnay
- Drinking 2023 - 2027
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
2021 - Ox Hardy Adelaide Hills Chardonnay - 6x75cl
- Colour White
- Producer Ox Hardy
- Region McLaren Vale
- Grape Chardonnay
- Drinking 2023 - 2027
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, January 2023
This Chardonnay comes from the cooler Adelaide Hills and offers crisp citrus and honeydew melon notes atop delicate mango skin, peach and passion fruit. The focus here is on bright, vivid fruit thanks to vinification in stainless steel. Winemaker Ox also uses a very small proportion of second fill barriques which suffuses all these crystalline flavours with a delightfully supple texture without imparting any obvious oak influence. White blossom, fresh fennel and tingling minerals add delightful complexity to the impressively concentrated fruit, leading to a long, mouth-watering finish. Drink 2023-2027.
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Matthew Jukes, January 2023, Score: 18
2021 Chardonnay Adelaide Hills draws on fruit from Oakbank and Mount Torrens, and this is an excellent combo of two parcels - one machine harvested and one hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed. Only old oak and steel are used, and with ten months of maturation, the winemaking job is done. There is beguiling balance and lift here and ridiculous complexity bearing in mind the twenty-quid price point. I can hear Burgundians blushing as I write these words, and so they should.
Producer
Ox Hardy
Ox Hardy is the personal passion project of winemaker Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy, formerly chief winemaker at cult estate Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Twenty years ago, he began making tiny amounts of wine for the family to drink from cherished old vines, some first planted in the 1800s by his great great grandfather Thomas Hardy. This McLaren Vale estate has become revered for its small-production Shiraz. They are deeply impress...Read more
Ox Hardy is the personal passion project of winemaker Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy, formerly chief winemaker at cult estate Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Twenty years ago, he began making tiny amounts of wine for the family to drink from cherished old vines, some first planted in the 1800s by his great great grandfather Thomas Hardy. This McLaren Vale estate has become revered for its small-production Shiraz. They are deeply impressive wines, and as leading wine critic Matthew Jukes says, “No self-respecting wine collector can declare their cellar complete without a few cases of these wines in their racks”. Goedhuis CEO Tom Stopford Sackville first met Andrew Hardy, while harvesting the 1989 vintage at Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Roll forward 32 years, Tom and the whole Goedhuis team are understandably excited and honoured to represent Ox Hardy as exclusive UK importer. Ox shares our enthusiasm: "I am delighted and honoured that Goedhuis Co. are importing and distributing my wines in the UK. I worked with Tom at Petaluma in 1989 when we were both young fellas. How fortuitous that 32 years later we are linked through wines that I have been making for some years from the Upper Tintara Vineyard my great-great grandfather bought in 1871. The wines are true expressions of this grand old vineyard and I feel the Goedhuis team is an ideal fit. The portfolio is tight and excellent, representing many of the worlds' great estates, and it is wonderful to be in such company. I look forward to many happy years with Goedhuis Co."Read less

Region
McLaren Vale
McLaren Vale's vineyards can be found in South Australia on the rolling hills stretching from southof Adelaide to south of Morphett Vale. The region produces big red wines of excellent quality from Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon mainly. These rich reds, especially the Shiraz, can often be distinguished by their dark chocolate, warm-earth character. The complex range of soils in the region also means that many other grape varieties can be seen to grow, such as old-vine Grenache, Chardonnay, Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc.