Schmölzer & Brown 'Thorley' Chardonnay 2022
The Wine
96 pts Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian) ‘Green apple and lemon zest, shortbread just starting to brown, some soft tarragon and chervil. Breathtakingly fine and pure acidity humming through the wine. These guys are genuine stars.’
95 pts Mike Bennie (The Wine Front) ‘Crikey this is fantastic. Flinty, minerally, succulent, quite light weight but so impressive... Outstanding length. Brilliant, crystalline wine. 95, maybe 96 points.’
95 pts Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion) ‘But it is the depth of fruit concentration and length that really impresses with beautifully integrated acidity.’
95 pts Gary Walsh (The Wine Front) ‘Mouth-watering and intense. Very specific, and very bloody good.’
The Details
Variety - Chardonnay
Country - Australia
Region - Victoria
Sub Region - Beechworth
Extra - Cork
Year - 2022
Volume - 750ml
About the Wine Maker 
Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown is the partnership of Tessa Brown, winemaker and viticulturist & Jeremy Schmölzer, Architect. We planted our vineyard, Thorley, in the highest part of the Beechworth GI in 2014 and 2015. We both work in the vineyard and winery to grow vines and make wines with precision, balance and drinkability. In all but the most challenging years, we grow our vines using organic practises. We are currently contructing our winery and home, which is off-grid solar. In the winery we work simply to not lose the purity of the fruit we’ve generally worked pretty hard to grow well. We would class ourselves as minimal intervention, high altitude specialists. You could even say sub-alpine, given much of our production is from vineyards over 700m ASL.
We make a range of wines from Beechworth and the King Valley. The Thorley wines are solely from our farm. The Brunnen vineyard is a tiny parcel of vines across the road from us owned by our neighbours, which we've been working with since 2014. The Obstgarten wines are from a Riesling vineyard in Whitlands, King Valley. Our Prêt-à-Blanc, Prêt-à-Rosé and Prêt-à-Rouge wines are all blends, assembled with an eye to easy drinking.
Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown
