Marchand and Burch
A unique winemaking joint venture between Burgundian winemaker and biodynamic ambassador Pascal Marchand and Jeff Burch, vigneron and owner of Burch Family Wines. This partnership combines centuries of Burgundian winemaking experience and the best of West Australian fruit sourcing to craft a range of wines that excites the passion in both of these two men. The Australian Collection sources fruit from specifically identified vineyard blocks in the Great Southern and Margaret River. They aim to work the natural environment to craft wines that best expresses the soils from which the grapes have come from.
Marchand & Burch ‘Villages ’ Chardonnay Vintage Porongurup and Mount Barker
The Great Southern sub regions began the growing season with just adequate soil moisture and scant catchment fill. Predictably unpredictable spring weather in November did impact flowering, set and early spring growth on exposed sites. Summer was hot but uniformly so with some late on shore drizzle which brought the vintage to a rapid close in early April.
Rose 2022
Fruit and Juice Handling
Picked at a ripeness of 12.5⁰Be and maintained for a few hours on skins before gentle pressing to extract fine flavours, soft tannins and subtle colour.
Fermentation & Maturation
After minimal settling, the juice ferments naturally in older French oak. Fermentation temperatures reach 22⁰C and the lees were stirred weekly from later in the fermentation until dry. During the few months in oak and on lees, partial malolactic occurred.
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