Winemaker Notes
Brilliant in color, this wine displays white peach and citrus on the bouqet and a touch of toasty oak. On the palate, these nuances intensify and manifest themselves.
The wine shows best with brasserie roast chicken or international cheeses, and will cellar well for four to five years.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
The team behind this brand, including the winemaker, Mike Kerrigan, is steeped in Western Australian wine; his career in Great Southern and Margaret River spans 30 years. Their Reverend V wines focus on tight sourcing; though they don’t identify the site, they report this comes from a single vineyard in Margaret River and ages in French oak barrels. That oak is only a structural element, with no overt impact on the cool, oceanic freshness of the wine, nor its bright yellow-apple and green-pear-skin flavor. It has chardonnay’s chamomile undertones as well as saline acidity that will take on oysters.
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.
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.