Bannockburn '1314' Chardonnay 2025
- TASTING NOTE: “The core of fruit flavour here is just simply delicious. In fact this wine pretty much rates as a ‘wow’ for deliciousness. It tastes of hay and yellow stonefruit, popcorn and pears, with a fully-integrated lacing of cedarwood oak. It’s a wine of excellent fruit intensity and also of out-and-out succulence. Yes please. Love this.” 93 Points - Cambell Mattinson, The Wine Front
- ABOUT THE WINE: Fruit for the 1314 Chardonnay is sourced from several blocks across Bannockburn’s organically farmed Estate, including a healthy dose from the pedigreed 1976 plantings. This is a barrel selection of the Estate’s 2025 crop, so the cellar practice is as it was for the Estate wines. The fruit was pressed as bunches to hogsheads (10% new) for fermentation. As is always the case, the oak is faultlessly integrated, and 85% of the wine underwent full malolactic conversion, followed by seven months of maturation on lees with no stirring. Only marginally less intense than the Estate bottling, this is an accomplished Chardonnay imbued with fleshy stony-citrus flavours, ocean-spray freshness and long, satiny length. The outstanding 2025 vintage has elevated this wine to another level.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Stuart Reginald Hooper established the estate in the limestone soils of Geelong’s Moorabool Valley in 1974. This family domaine is now managed by the second and third generation alongside winemaker Matt Holmes and viticulturist Lucas Grigsby. It has some of the region’s oldest vines and is a pioneer of high-density planting in Australia. Yields are tightly restricted, and farming across the estate is organic. The estate is famed for cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and the full range includes Riesling, Shiraz, Gamay and Sauvignon Blanc. Alongside the Estate wines and value-driven 1314 bottlings are the world-class single-site wines from the close-planted blocks.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Geelong, Victoria
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Matt Holmes
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Organic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
- TASTING NOTE: “The core of fruit flavour here is just simply delicious. In fact this wine pretty much rates as a ‘wow’ for deliciousness. It tastes of hay and yellow stonefruit, popcorn and pears, with a fully-integrated lacing of cedarwood oak. It’s a wine of excellent fruit intensity and also of out-and-out succulence. Yes please. Love this.” 93 Points - Cambell Mattinson, The Wine Front
- ABOUT THE WINE: Fruit for the 1314 Chardonnay is sourced from several blocks across Bannockburn’s organically farmed Estate, including a healthy dose from the pedigreed 1976 plantings. This is a barrel selection of the Estate’s 2025 crop, so the cellar practice is as it was for the Estate wines. The fruit was pressed as bunches to hogsheads (10% new) for fermentation. As is always the case, the oak is faultlessly integrated, and 85% of the wine underwent full malolactic conversion, followed by seven months of maturation on lees with no stirring. Only marginally less intense than the Estate bottling, this is an accomplished Chardonnay imbued with fleshy stony-citrus flavours, ocean-spray freshness and long, satiny length. The outstanding 2025 vintage has elevated this wine to another level.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Stuart Reginald Hooper established the estate in the limestone soils of Geelong’s Moorabool Valley in 1974. This family domaine is now managed by the second and third generation alongside winemaker Matt Holmes and viticulturist Lucas Grigsby. It has some of the region’s oldest vines and is a pioneer of high-density planting in Australia. Yields are tightly restricted, and farming across the estate is organic. The estate is famed for cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and the full range includes Riesling, Shiraz, Gamay and Sauvignon Blanc. Alongside the Estate wines and value-driven 1314 bottlings are the world-class single-site wines from the close-planted blocks.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Geelong, Victoria
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Matt Holmes
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Organic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
Description
- TASTING NOTE: “The core of fruit flavour here is just simply delicious. In fact this wine pretty much rates as a ‘wow’ for deliciousness. It tastes of hay and yellow stonefruit, popcorn and pears, with a fully-integrated lacing of cedarwood oak. It’s a wine of excellent fruit intensity and also of out-and-out succulence. Yes please. Love this.” 93 Points - Cambell Mattinson, The Wine Front
- ABOUT THE WINE: Fruit for the 1314 Chardonnay is sourced from several blocks across Bannockburn’s organically farmed Estate, including a healthy dose from the pedigreed 1976 plantings. This is a barrel selection of the Estate’s 2025 crop, so the cellar practice is as it was for the Estate wines. The fruit was pressed as bunches to hogsheads (10% new) for fermentation. As is always the case, the oak is faultlessly integrated, and 85% of the wine underwent full malolactic conversion, followed by seven months of maturation on lees with no stirring. Only marginally less intense than the Estate bottling, this is an accomplished Chardonnay imbued with fleshy stony-citrus flavours, ocean-spray freshness and long, satiny length. The outstanding 2025 vintage has elevated this wine to another level.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Stuart Reginald Hooper established the estate in the limestone soils of Geelong’s Moorabool Valley in 1974. This family domaine is now managed by the second and third generation alongside winemaker Matt Holmes and viticulturist Lucas Grigsby. It has some of the region’s oldest vines and is a pioneer of high-density planting in Australia. Yields are tightly restricted, and farming across the estate is organic. The estate is famed for cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and the full range includes Riesling, Shiraz, Gamay and Sauvignon Blanc. Alongside the Estate wines and value-driven 1314 bottlings are the world-class single-site wines from the close-planted blocks.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Geelong, Victoria
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Matt Holmes
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Organic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
