Oakridge Wines

2016 OAKRIDGE LOCAL VINEYARD SERIES WILLOWLAKE VINEYARD YARRA VALLEY CHARDONNAY

RRP $38 / 2026

From the Upper Yarra, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed direct to French puncheons for wild fermentation followed by 10 months maturation. The Willow Lake Vineyard is the oldest in the Upper Yarra, and one of the oldest in the entire Valley. This wine has a vibrancy, an edge, giving it a mouthfeel and set of flavours firmly anchored on grapefruit, which the Barkala Ridge doesn’t have. Great success for the vintage. 13.2% alc.

WINEMAKER David Bicknell What do you love about aged wine?

Old wines for me are bit like ‘Wine-geek CSI’; the forensics of reconnecting to the time and place of when the wine was made. What is it? Where and how was it grown? What was the season like? What was it they were trying to do? Did they succeed? What can I learn from this?