In its youth d'Arenberg's The Other Side Chardonnay has a brilliant mid straw to gold colour with lifted melon dominated aromas, as well as enveloping cashew, elegant butterscotch and creamy biscuit aromas mingling with intense juicy primary fruit smells, especially rockmelon, poached pear and pineapples. These also dominate the young palate where vanillin oak and yeast autolysis give clotted cream and banana flavours before a shot of limey acidity carrying the rich, long rolling and tangy finish.

After some bottle ageing d'Arenberg's The Other Side Chardonnay should develop in colour to a richer bright gold. The aroma should also develop in complexity to become dominated by roasted chestnuts, malt, sweet fruit pie and ripe banana smells, but all still supported by other fruit derived smells as well as smoky bacon, honey, light treacle almond-essence and stewed peach characters on the nose and palate. In the mouth, an older Other Side Chardonnay will maintain a big rich butterscotch and fresher fruit based flavour but also be distinguished with a fine edge of acidity as well as a rolling, lengthy penetrating finish for quite some considerable time.