'NOW' by PAXTON stands for NATURAL ORGANIC WINE.

The consumer market demand has been growing steadily for Preservative Free/Natural wines. As leaders in organic production, it was obvious that Paxton needed a product for this category. In addition to Natural, PF & Organic, we wanted to make a young, drink NOW style Chardonnay that was different from our existing Chardonnay style.

Winemaking

We pick our Four O’clock Chardonnay at night, or early in the morning to keep the grapes cool and help jolly along the delicate nectarine and stone fruit characters and not lose them. Joch and the team make this wine in batches so we end up with different components when it comes time to put the wine together and bottle it. We get our Chardonnay from 3 different (organic) blocks on the vineyards, so each batch brings its own peculiarities of site with it to the mix. We try our very hardest to keep the ferment away from oxygen, and the grapes undergo a cool ferment in stainless steel tanks. We don’t allow the wine to go through the secondary malolactic fermentation, because we want to protect the natural acidity.

Tasting Note

2015 was a great white year in McLaren Vale (no shark pun intended) - the wine shows length, balance and freshness with citrus and stone fruit and a hint of pineapple. This wine shows so much flavour and character for a wine that is completely unoaked. ‘Four o’clock’ is pretty versatile, too; great as an aperitif (don’t serve too chilled) and wonderful with a range of foods: roast chicken and mushroom risotto is my standard food matching suggestion.

The Thomas Block Chardonnay is a biodynamically produced organic wine that is vegan compliant. Past vintages have consistently all scored 90+ points from the recognised wine critics.

Golden straw with a slight green hue exhibiting bright tropical fruits with hints of olives, butter-scotch & zesty citrus notes
Lemon & characters with integrated French oak, a touch of marmalade, butterscotch & delicate minerality

A delicious Chardonnay from one of Australia's most respected wine growers - David Paxton. Paxton's organic wines are produced on Biodynamic principles without the use of synthetic fertilisers or pesticides with a focus on promoting healthy, living soils.

89pts - James Halliday

Certified Organic, the Battle of Bosworth Chardonnay is complex & delicious, full of flavour, yet delicate.

There is a hint of nut, stone fruit & some underlying citrus characters on both nose & palate.

Medium-bodied, full flavoured & quite delightful.

"Golden colour introduces a flint-flecked wine with strong flavours of ripe peach & toasty oak. This is full-bodied chardonnay with plenty of zing to the finish..." - James Halliday

Tulloch 'E. M.' Limited Production Chardonnay 2018

95pts - The Wine Front

93pts - Jeremy Oliver

"This is very good release for Cape Mentelle. You rarely go too far wrong with their Chardonnay, but this vintage is a long way right." - The Wine Front

"... aromas of peach, nutmeal, matchstick & creamy vanilla oak are backed by nuances of smoked meats & nutty, yeast-derived notes. It’s long & smooth, with a fractionally brassy & candied presence of citrusy, melon & stonefruit flavours backed by nutty, mealy aspects & sweet oak, finishing with genuine length & a brittle acidity. It opens up considerably with aeration." - Jeremy Oliver