Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Kooyong Single Vineyard Farrago Chardonnay has a savory baking bread, yeast extract and nutty nose over a core of lemons, white peaches and struck match plus a waft of orange blossoms. Light to medium-bodied, it fills the mouth with creamy citrus and stone fruit flavors with the yeasty layers coming through in the long finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
0 Without any new oak or lees stirring, this wine's sole focus is on the fruit. Pineapple, melon and peach notes are pure and striking, supported by just hints of vanilla and cream. This medium-bodied Chardonnay finishes in a flurry of tangerine and lime.
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Wine Spectator
An intense blend of creamy, buttery lemon and peach flavors, rich and with a toasted hazelnut edge, smooth and juicy on the finish. Drink now.
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.
Extending into the sea from just south of the city of Melbourne to form Port Philip Bay in the southern state of Victoria, the Mornington Peninsula grape growing region naturally has a cool, maritime climate. A wide range of soils and topographic variations support a large diversity of wine styles within the small headland.