Winemaker Notes
This wine is a pale gold color with complex aromas of lemon rind, white peach, blossom, and honeydew melon, with added nutty and salty savory notes. The palate is rich with citrus and stone fruit flavors, firm acidity, and a savory texture. It is a well-balanced and layered wine, likely a Chardonnay, based on the described characteristics.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
The nose gives aromas of lemon rind, shortbread and grapefruit. The plate is medium-bodied with focused acidity, giving notes of lime curd, green papayas and mandarins. Very balanced and focused. Delicious.
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Vinous
The 2023 Estate Chardonnay is well weighted and approachable, offering cantaloupe and pear aromas beautifully integrated with silky French oak. A charmer all round, it sits in an elegant frame with a savory feel through to a seamless 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.
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.