Shanteh Wale, The Wine Pilot, May 2023
Whole bunch pressed, fermented in puncheons of which 30% was new. Full malolactic fermentation and 10 months in oak. The 2021 vintage has you leaning in a little closer to hear the deft tones of this incarnation. Greengage plums, yellow apple skin and a puff of Johnson’s and Johnson’s talcum powder.
There is sliced lemon blank, sliced okra and golden kiwi. The acumen of site and vintage is well displayed here with a real restraint shown to highlight the fine edges and detail in the mild vintage. Despite its balletic grace the power still drives down the middle palate like long legs in shadow, they continue to grow. This will age very well. A lovely drink that deserves a little bit of hush to really enjoy. Drink with chilled yabbies and the thinnest sheet of pork lardo resting on top. 96 Points.
Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal, March 2023
Pale colour. Intense white peach, white apricot marzipan tonic water aromas with honey vanilla notes. Beautifully balanced wine with fresh stonefruit, lemon curd flavours, fine lacy textures, superb creamy complexity and underlying marzipan vanillin notes. Finishes long and minerally. A top-notch Adelaide Hills Chardonnay with amazing flow, clarity and persistency. Drinking beautifully now. Why wait? Drink now – 2028. 98 Points.
Halliday Wine Companion - 100 New Tasting Notes, March 2023
Transparent and tensile with an additional nuance of flavour, vibrato and mineral cohesion etched into the firmament of complexity each year. White peach, toasted hazelnut, jasmine and nougatine teem long. The oak, nestled beautifully, serves as a framing backdrop rather than the centrepiece. A wine of precision, intense flavours and immense class. 96 Points.
Huone Hooke, The Real Review, March 2023
Light-mid straw-yellow hue; aromas of creamy yeast lees, cashew nut and traces of smoky reduction, well controlled. More wheaty as it aired. The wine is very delicate in the mouth, restrained, fresh and quite intense with bright acidity and great harmony. Lots of charm. Not a big-framed or powerful chardonnay but has lovely balance and drinkability. (Bernard 95 & 76 clones). 93 Points.
Ned Goodwin MW, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2023
Fermented wild in new and used 500L puncheons; maturated for 10 months with occasional stir. Among the country’s varietal exemplars. Transparent and tensile with an additional nuance of flavour, vibrato and mineral cohesion etched into the firmament of complexity each year. White peach, toasted hazelnut, jasmine and nougatine teem long. The oak, nestled beautifully, serves as a framing backdrop rather the centrepiece. A wine of precision, intense flavours and immense class. 96 Points.
Shanteh Wale, The Wine Pilot, May 2023
Whole bunch pressed, fermented in puncheons of which 30% was new. Full malolactic fermentation and 10 months in oak. The 2021 vintage has you leaning in a little closer to hear the deft tones of this incarnation. Greengage plums, yellow apple skin and a puff of Johnson’s and Johnson’s talcum powder.
There is sliced lemon blank, sliced okra and golden kiwi. The acumen of site and vintage is well displayed here with a real restraint shown to highlight the fine edges and detail in the mild vintage. Despite its balletic grace the power still drives down the middle palate like long legs in shadow, they continue to grow. This will age very well. A lovely drink that deserves a little bit of hush to really enjoy. Drink with chilled yabbies and the thinnest sheet of pork lardo resting on top. 96 Points.
Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal, March 2023
Pale colour. Intense white peach, white apricot marzipan tonic water aromas with honey vanilla notes. Beautifully balanced wine with fresh stonefruit, lemon curd flavours, fine lacy textures, superb creamy complexity and underlying marzipan vanillin notes. Finishes long and minerally. A top-notch Adelaide Hills Chardonnay with amazing flow, clarity and persistency. Drinking beautifully now. Why wait? Drink now – 2028. 98 Points.
Halliday Wine Companion - 100 New Tasting Notes, March 2023
Transparent and tensile with an additional nuance of flavour, vibrato and mineral cohesion etched into the firmament of complexity each year. White peach, toasted hazelnut, jasmine and nougatine teem long. The oak, nestled beautifully, serves as a framing backdrop rather than the centrepiece. A wine of precision, intense flavours and immense class. 96 Points.
Huone Hooke, The Real Review, March 2023
Light-mid straw-yellow hue; aromas of creamy yeast lees, cashew nut and traces of smoky reduction, well controlled. More wheaty as it aired. The wine is very delicate in the mouth, restrained, fresh and quite intense with bright acidity and great harmony. Lots of charm. Not a big-framed or powerful chardonnay but has lovely balance and drinkability. (Bernard 95 & 76 clones). 93 Points.
Ned Goodwin MW, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2023
Fermented wild in new and used 500L puncheons; maturated for 10 months with occasional stir. Among the country’s varietal exemplars. Transparent and tensile with an additional nuance of flavour, vibrato and mineral cohesion etched into the firmament of complexity each year. White peach, toasted hazelnut, jasmine and nougatine teem long. The oak, nestled beautifully, serves as a framing backdrop rather the centrepiece. A wine of precision, intense flavours and immense class. 96 Points.
