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As we step up the range from the 10X Chardonnay, the challenge becomes how to add more to a wine without upsetting the balance and poise of the entry level label. The answer provided by this wine is: add even greater complexity and ramp up the drive a notch, but don’t break the fundamentals of what is a great house style.
The nose shows complex caramel and butter notes, not rich so much as deep. Layered on top are fruit aromas of white stonefruit and honeydew melon, themselves topped by a range of funky, savoury notes. There’s a lot to smell here, all well arranged and integrated, but the conventional markers of quality aren’t adequate to explain why the aroma is so magnetic, why it demands to be smelled over and over. The palate is as much of textural interest as it is flavour, and what makes the first impression is a certain fullness of palate weight and slipperiness of mouthfeel. It’s a luxurious wine for sure, one that delivers its caramel and stonefruit flavours on a bed of satin sheets and down pillows. And yet it’s not a blowsy wine at all, thanks to a strongly savoury thread that runs alongside the softer flavours, giving them bite and keeping the wine’s flavour profile taut. Acid contributes to a lively after palate, and the finish winds up on a fabulously savoury twist, like the most refreshing of old fashioned cocktails.
Grower's Profile: Ten Minutes by Tractor
Ten Minutes by Tractor is rated as one of Australia's best wineries by wine guru James Halliday and the wines regularly receive rave reviews from such celebrated wine writers as Jancis Robinson MW, Huon Hooke, Matthew Jukes, and Nick Stock of the Penguin Guide to Australian Wines. Since Martin Spedding took over the winery in 2004, he has transformed it in to one of Australia's leading estates, focussing on the quality of the grapes from the three original vineyards, each of them a ten minute tractor ride away from each other.