Hardy'sEileen Hardy Chardonnay 2012
About this product
This Chardonnay is released as a tribute to Eileen Hardy, the matriarch of Australia's best known wine making and sailing family. Eileen actively influenced the Hardy wine company between 1938 - 1975, and was honoured with an OBE in 1977 for her outstanding contribution to the Australian wine industry. Eileen Hardy Chardonnay looks to preserve to bottle the essential characteristics of the vineyard fruit. Several of thew vineyards we source Chardonnay from were planted for us at carefully selected sites, only fit for Eileen Hardy Chardonnay at full maturity.
This Chardonnay is released as a tribute to Eileen Hardy, the matriarch of Australia's best known wine making and sailing family. Eileen actively influenced the Hardy wine company between 1938 - 1975, and was honoured with an OBE in 1977 for her outstanding contribution to the Australian wine industry. Eileen Hardy Chardonnay looks to preserve to bottle the essential characteristics of the vineyard fruit. Several of thew vineyards we source Chardonnay from were planted for us at carefully selected sites, only fit for Eileen Hardy Chardonnay at full maturity.
- TypeChardonnay
- Size750
- RegionTasmania
- Current Vintage2012
- Standard Drinks7.988625
- Alcohol Volume13.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateTasmania
- Brand NameHardy's
- Wine MakerTom Newton
- Vegan Friendlyfalse
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyMedium Bodied
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker

Vintage 2012
96 points
Sourced from Tasmania and the Upper Yarra Valley; barrel-fermented in 50% new, 50% 1-year-old French oak, 80% mlf. Combines complexity with feline grace, a marvellous array of white stone fruit, melon, fig and grapefruit flavours all seeking to speak, the mlf providing a creamy note to the texture.
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Huon Hooke
Prolific Australian wine reviewer for Fairfax Media and The Real Review

Vintage 2012
96 points
Full, bright yellow colour. Intense, rich, open-knit peachy bouquet, with lots of richness and volume, bordering on the opulent. Lashings of high quality oak, in good balance with the rich, concentrated fruit flavour. Outstanding wine.

