Chardonnay

Margaret River, Western Australia. Vibrant perfumes and aromas of lime, orange blossom and honey suckle. The palate is richly fruited and reveals a balance of expansive fruit, texture and sophisticated elegance. Flavours of nashi pear, stone fruit and dried figs mingle with notes of hazelnut and creamy vanilla bean. The wine stays true to its purity with a beautifully focused mineral structure...

Chablis, Burgundy, France. Very pretty pale golden yellow in colour with light greenish glints. Bright, luminous and limpid...

Macônnais, France. rchard scents of ripening apple and pear, coupled with soft floral tones reminiscent of acacia and mimosa. Interlaced among the wine’s floral aroma is beguiling limestone minerality. In the mouth a host of savoury orchard flavours along with minerals, lemon zest...

Central Otago, New Zealand. Domaine Thomson began in 2000 when David and PM Hall-Jones purchased their block in Central Otago, naming it after David’s great great grandfather "Surveyor Thomson” who explored and mapped Central Otago in the 1850’s...

Beechworth, Victoria. The fruit aromatics are driven by lemon and nectarine, with secondary characters typical of Beechworth – oatmeal, hazelnut and a touch of struck match...

WINERY RATING

James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013

WINERY RATING

James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013

California North Coast, USA. Rich and round palate with loads of yellow peach, fig and lemon curd, which pleasantly meld to a mid palate full of intriguing secondary notes of spice, toast and butterscotch with textural nutty, mealy complexity...

Central Otago, New Zealand. The palate opens with an expansive softness that coats the mouth, then builds and tightens sufficiently through the finish to give the wine great persistence. No added yeast, no new oak, no fining, no filtration…. in fact, not a lot of anything; just sensitively farmed grapes from our finest Chardonnay parcel. An uplifting wine of great harmony and poise...

Margaret River, Western Australia. There are gentle cedary aromas with hints of grapefruit and white peach while the palate shows pure intense nectarine and white peach flavours that are fine and delicate, and tight structure before a taut, zesty finish that is crisp and dry. This is a seamless white in which the fruit, oak and tannins are beautifully integrated. At present, it is vibrant and almost lean yet with richness and concentration that...