Winemaker Notes
This cool-climate Chardonnay is refreshingly vibrant on the palate, exhibiting youthful characteristics. It offers zesty citrus flavors of lemon and grapefruit, complemented by subtle creamy notes and a lively, invigorating finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A vibrant white, offering an intense mix of lemon curd, pear, peach pastry and dried apricot flavors on a fleshy, mouthwatering frame.
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.
Directly south of the city of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula wine region, the cool-climate island of Tasmania has earned an honorable reputation as the country’s finest producer of Sparkling Wine. Naturally the region also excels in top quality still wines from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, all distinguished because of a high natural acidity. Most of the Tasmania vineyards cluster around the eastern side of the island from north to south.