“The 2024 Estate Chardonnay is concentrated and intense, full of salted nuts, flowers and saline acidity. There is plenty of wine here – i.e., it is full of flavour and long through the finish – and yet it manages restraint as well. This is a classy wine, very attractive. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.”

“Straw yellow shines through the glass. Ripe peach, roasting nuts and flinty mineral aromatics. Bright, powerful and well defined across the palate with peach fruits, lemon zest and a creamy nougat centre. Great length, acidity is well integrated, working to drive it without poking out as it runs very long and finely detailed at the finish.”

A free wheeling, generous Chardonnay in the Paringa style, but underneath the sunny exterior there is an underlying structural power. Brings the scent of the beach with saline, sea spray notes and ripe peach, pear, nectarine and citrus – very summery and bright. A balanced palate, delightfully citrus and upfront in stone fruits with background lightly spiced, vanillin oak, quince and a quince skin savouriness awaits. Brisk acidity nicely controls the obvious richness and delivers one smart, enticing wine.

Bright citrus, apple and white nectarine. Rocky, savoury energy, generously pure fruit. Leesy richness; vibrant, clean palate. Lingering freshness. Drink 2026-2037.

Reductive struck match and nougat notes add dimension to the waxy lemon, orange peel, and subtly spiced tropical fruit characters. It’s mouthfilling with lovely freshness, toasty edges, and a core of fleshy fruit to a long finish.

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