Yarra Valley Chardonnay

Wine Details

• Region Yarra Valley, Victoria
• Vintage 2025
• Type White Wine
• Variety Chardonnay
• Volume 750ml
• Alcohol Volume 12.8%
• pH

  3.08

• Acidity

  6.3g/L

• Closure ScrewCap
• Bottling Date

  November 2025

• Harvest Date

  February 2025

• Background

  Yarra Valley

• Vintage Notes

  The 2025 season kicked off with a generous, wet winter that filled the soil profile with moisture. From there, spring arrived warm and dry. Shoots pushed early; we had fantastic spring conditions during flowering and fruit set. The dry season pushed growth and ripening along even though temperatures weren’t hot, in fact barely warmer than average, a pleasant surprise for the dryness of the season. Harvest came earlier than usual and moved quickly, a compressed vintage that asked a great deal of the team and rewarded the effort with fruit of exceptional quality, concentration and weight.

• Vineyard Notes

  Sourced from vineyards across the Yarra Valley. 50% sourced from the upper Yarra ranges.

• Winemaking

  At Giant Steps, we hand pick 100% of our fruit and fastidiously hand sort in the vineyard. The grapes are then transported to the winery and put into the cold room overnight to cool down to 4 deg C before pressing the day following. Chardonnay is always whole bunch pressed either directly to barrel or pressed to tank before immediate transfer to barrel with full solids. The wine is wild fermented in French oak puncheons, 19% of which is new while the balance is seasoned. We allow the ferments to warm naturally, stirring daily to encourage fermentation and build texture. The level of malolactic fermentation (MLF) is dependent on season. In 2025, 10% of the barrels went through MLF. Post fermentation, we sulphur and then hold the barrels in a reductive environment on full lees with no stirring until blending and bottling in November.