Chardonnay ‘25, King Valley

From Chrismont Estate in the King Valley, this wine’s natural yeast defied microbiological doctrine and fermented at 2°C, which helped lock in a crisp fruit profile, fleshed out with some flinty reduction from batonnage (stirring the bastard), which we did no more than just enough of. We left a bit of the good kind of sediment in there for you, so if you’d like to try a bit of batonnage yourself, roll the bottle like a good old Coopers’ beer before opening.