Tyrrell’s Vat 47 Chardonnay

Vat 47 Chardonnay comes entirely from Tyrrell’s Short Flat vineyard, with the original chardonnay vines on this block being planted by Murray Tyrrell in the late 1960s. The fruit was hand picked, basket pressed and matured for eight months in high quality, tight grain French oak barriques, with only a small percentage being new.

The wine shows an incredibly rich fruit profile with bright, clean acid on the finish and some secondary characters derived from the slight solids ferment. With its backbone of tight acidity and citrus, this is a very strong example of modern Hunter Valley chardonnay. As with all Tyrrell’s chardonnays, Vat 47 does not undergo any malolactic fermentation.

The Tyrrell’s Winemaker’s Selection is one of Australia’s oldest and most awarded collection of wines, adhering to timeless styles that transcend trends and fads. The wines within this range all originate from our finest and oldest vineyards around our historic Pokolbin winery in the Hunter Valley.

Each one of the Winemaker’s Selection wines is unambiguously designed to surpass ordinary ageing criteria – indeed every one of these wines has a track record of bottle ageing. A number of factors set these wines apart – acid structure, length of flavour and the age of the vineyards.