Woodlands Brook Chardonnay, Margaret River (2022) Christmas and the wine spends fourteen

and the wine spends fourteen months in French oak - a measured amount

a round middle

A small proportion (5%) of the blend is matured for four months in new oak barrels to build a sophisticated

It has been made every year since 1966 from a single Alexander Valley site

Woodlands Brook Chardonnay, Margaret River (2022) Christmas and the wine spends fourteenWoodlands is one of the founding names of Margaret River, planted by the Watson family in the 1970s and central to making the Wilyabrup Valley the address it is for Chardonnay and Cabernet. This is their single vineyard Chardonnay, drawn entirely from the close planted Brook plot the wine where the estate turns everything up a notch over its village bottling. It's made the traditional way: handpicked and hand sorted, then whole bunch pressed straight