Yalumba GEN Organic Chardonnay

Yalumba GEN Organic Chardonnay

Yalumba GEN Organic Chardonnay – Yalumba GEN is a commitment to betterment and a fierce determination for the future. It’s a responsibility not taken lightly and it’s the Hill-Smith family’s promise to you. It’s the assurance that when you choose Yalumba GEN, you choose a better future for future generations.

Lemon in colour with green hues. Peach and melon aromas mingle with hints of fennel and pineapple. This lovely mix of aromas is mirrored in the flavours and joined by a rich, creamy mid-palate and tropical acidity
to finish.

Vintage Conditions

Replenishing winter rainfall with a cool, dry spring and below average summer temperatures, perfect weather for ripening the grapes. The grapes were harvested full of flavour and natural acidity.

Provenance

Certified organic in 2010, the Carypidis Family Vineyard in Virginia has produced high quality Chardonnay for Yalumba for over twenty five years. They are joined by our organic Chardonnay planting
at Waikerie and our first organic grower, the Barich family at Loxton. Meticulous work in all vineyards ensures that the grapes are in perfect condition when they are picked. .

Food Pairing

Enjoy with spicy mussels and soba noodles or lentil, sweet potato and chickpea stew.

Producer Profile

In 1847 a 37-year-old brewer called Samuel Smith left his home in Wareham, Dorset with his wife Mary and their four children. Boarding a simple three-masted barque they left Plymouth and began the long and arduous journey to Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide. From there they trecked north to Angaston where Samuel took a job as a gardener. It was arguably this brave decision to start a new life in a remote and distant land, together with the hardship that they endured, that formed the strong sense of family unity that has been the bedrock of the family business ever since. In 1849 he started the wine farm that would grow over the next 5 generations to become one of Australia’s leading wineries, with a winemaking culture that is internationally recognised and respected. To embrace the native culture, Samuel decided to adopt a local name for his farm, calling it “Yalumba” meaning “all the country around’’ in the indigenous Peramangk language.

Yalumba is part of Australian wine alliance Australia’s First Families of Wine, a multimillion-dollar venture to help resurrect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry while highlighting the quality and diversity of Australian wine.

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Yalumba has been developing its own sustainable viticulture program since the mid 1990s. This starts in the vineyard and extends to every aspect of winemaking, production, packaging and distribution. Many awards and milestones have resulted due to sustainability now being at our core. All Yalumba wines were announced vegetarian and vegan friendly as of 2011. Yalumba is the first wine company in the world to receive the Climate Protection Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007. These benefits are most obvious in your wine glass.

“Apart from economic viability and social equity, for us, sustainability is about biodiversity in our vineyards,” says Winemaker Louisa Rose. “To encourage it, we’ve done a number of things: we’ve reduced the amount of chemicals we use, incorporated an integrated pest management system, and encouraged biodiversity of vegetation in our vineyards”. All in the name of better winemaking

Yalumba GEN Organic Chardonnay