Micah Hewitt is the winemaker (and everything else) behind the label DEFIALY: “Don’t Ever Forget I’ll Always Love You”. Micah describes his wines as handmade, no-tech and minimal fuckery. His ideology is to start with great fruit and let it do all the talking in an honest representation of time and place. Which we are all about as big lovers of how terroir is expressed in wine.

He purchases some fruit for his standard Defialy labelled stuff but anything under the Domaine Defialy label is fruit he has grown himself in the Macedon Ranges. 2023 was a very challenging, very low yielding season, and Micah has still put out some amazing wines, this pretty little Chardonnay is maybe our favourite.

Whole bunch pressed, barrel fermented, elevage in stainless. Very small amount of SO2 added before bottling. Delicate and pretty but still heaps of character and somewhat Chablis esque. Lean and tight, classic gentle stonefruit, gooseberry, lovely salinity and freshness, tight dry finish.