Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Australian Wine Companion
A blend of Yarra Valley and Strathbogie Ranges fruit with .54% riesling added. Wild ferment, with maturation in a range of different size barrels. Nicely struck-flint complexity across melon, pear, mandarin fruits with nougat and nuttiness. Generous and complex, buttery and nutty, across a creamy, silky texture. A meal in itself.
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James Suckling
Grilled lemon, spiced pear, dried mango, papaya, smoked almond and gunpowder. Full-bodied, ripe and fleshy. Lots of juicy stone fruit with a flavorful, creamy finish.
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.
Nestled into the tip of its southeastern coastline, Victoria is Australia’s smallest mainland state, second most populous and third largest wine producer. Victoria includes the cool regions of Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong, made famous mainly by impressive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
The more inland Heathcote and Bendigo lead the way for complex and textured, full-bodied reds. Rutherglen’s fortified wines compete among the best on the planet.