Accolades and Awards:
Winner - Two Trophies - 2013 Victorian Wine Show: Best Oak Matured White and Best Table White Wine.
"Rich and intense fruit and beautifully balanced. A traditional Chardonnay in both style and character, which could see plenty of cellar time. Added weight from barrel stirring adds to the fruit length."

James Halliday: 95
From a single estate block, wild yeast barrel-fermented and matured in those barrels before transfer to tank for 6 months on fine lees. This is the most generous and richly flavoured of the Rochford '12 Chardonnays, its point of difference coming from the vineyard, not the vinification, other than wild yeast fermentation. It provides flavour with finesse, length with balance, the overall flavour profile and structure in the heartland of Yarra chardonnay.

Past Accolades and Awards:
James Halliday: 95
From Rochford's 30-year-old, steeply sloping, vineyard on Briarty Road, wild yeast barrel fermented in French oak (25% new), matured in those barrels for 12 months, then a further six months in tank. A very elegant wine, with perfectly ripened varietal fruit, and the length for which the best Yarra Valley chardonnays are known.

Tasting Notes

Winner - Two Trophies - 2013 Victorian Wine Show - Best Oak Matured White and Best Table White Wine. Rich and intense fruit and beautifully balanced. A traditional Chardonnay in both style and character, which could see plenty of cellar time. Added weight from barrel stirring adds to the fruit length.

Winemaking Notes
Hand picked on 22nd February and crushed, pressed with full solids. Spontaneous barrel fermentation and maturation. Twelve months on lees in barrel and a further six months on fine lees in tank.

Viticultural Notes
The chardonnay fruit from this single vineyard is grown at our Briarty Hill Block 2 site, cane pruned, north-facing, protected from wind and frost by the preceding hill. This is the second Isabella Chardonnay to be vinified from this site.