Color: Color is a bright clear steely white with youthful green hues.
Palate: Nectarine and mandarin are complemented by a textured savoury mid palate with hints of melon and spicy vanillin oak leading to a long crisp grapefruit finish.
Nose: A vibrant lifted nose of citrus and stone fruits with savoury cashew notes and hints of gunflint and toasty French oak.Top-shelf chardonnay from the West. Maybe it’s the vintage or the winemaking, but the ’23 offers a finer specimen of a Chardonnay than the previous release I tasted. Note to winemaker: keep it going! There’s a lemon theme happening here from the lemon bright hues through to the summery scents of lemon, grapefruit zest, white peach and nectarine. A seamless entry of fruit on the palate, full of character with a distinctive thread of nougat and almond and grilled nuts. Crisp, assertive, and featuring an undercurrent of light texture, it finishes with good length and balance. Can take some further time in bottle, too.
92 pts - Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot)Fermentation of the fruit for this wine, which hails from a single vineyard in Denmark in the south of Western Australia, was in a mix of new and older French oak. The colour is a vibrant pale yellow and we have aromas of spices, citrus, a hint of cashews, stonefruit, figs and lemon. An elegant style with good concentration, focus and excellent persistence. With a soft, cushiony texture, this wine will provide pleasure over the next four to eight years.
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