Winemaker Notes
A beautifully poised wine of elegant style. It’s complex bouquet is reminiscent of freshly cut yellow flowers, dandelions and buttercups exhaling in the sun. This carries into scents of loquat and yellow plum blended with traces of juniper and lemon myrtle and a hint of fresh mint. In the mouth, pink grapefruit frothed with white marshmallow and soft anise, melds with roasted pecan, toasted barley and malt to create a wine of great interest. Beautiful balance and acidity gives the wine extraordinary length and concentration.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Age has given the wine more colour than more recent vintages. There's evident opulence on the nose, but it's not overblown despite the richly toasty notes underlying the apple and apricot aromas, adding up to an intense and stylish profile. On the palate the attack is creamy, with a supple texture, but it retains an acidic bite and shows little sign of age. With its charm and finesse, it has a welcome delicacy but not at the expense of flavour. Balanced and long. Drinking Window 2021 - 2028
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.