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Well, we like to see a focused palate, mineral accent, good citric acidity, powerful fruit and restrained oak handling to give the wine a framework with which to build and live in the bottle. This wine comes closer to that end, in that it is structurally tighter and finer and still has bags of luscious fruit and great length of flavour. True to the Arlewood style in every sense.
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There’s a lot of Chardonnay for your buck with this offering from Bird in Hand out of the Adelaide hills. It’s a complex little number that shows smells of delicate ripe stone fruits, citrus, spice and toastiness on the bouquet. The elegant palate chimes in with more peach and melon flavours, a creamy texture, poised acidity, and a bright, refreshing finish.
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Here’s a Chardonnay you can really indulge yourself in. It’s a medium-bodied, creamy, complex style that shows aromas of stone fruits, yellow citrus, dairy and roasted nuts on the bouquet. The palate shows real peaches and cream flavours, with a nice zip of lemony acidity, a lick of toast and ginger spice, and a smooth, bright, juicy, long finish.
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This Bird In the Hand is definitely worth two in the bush as the saying goes. But honestly, this Adelaide Hills Chardonnay consistently over-delivers and makes us marvel at how they do it. It mixes up pure stone fruit with complexed nutty oak before a creamy palate of peach that’s textured and long.
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A savoury, complex bouquet of creamy lees and restrained custard apple nuances, very subtle toasty oak notes, and the palate is very tight, refined and intense, with grapefruit and lightly-toasted nut flavours. The flavours are beautifully harmonised and the wine is long and refined, with elegance and grace on the finish.
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This McLaren Vale Chardonnay displays rich tropical fruit with subtle oak integration adding complexity. A trademark d'Arenberg style.
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NOT a Chardonnay for Chardonnay lovers, but they probably wouldn’t be buying this kind of thing anyway. It’s a drink for drinkers. Tricky one to put into words, as are a lot of these sorts of wines. I enjoy it and would like to think that most others would too.
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Perfect bright yellow straw colour for its age, it has amazingly vibrant fruit showing the umami effect of perfect ripeness and deluxe barrel handling. It’s incredibly vibrant with citrus pineapple freshness, smoked oyster and seashell complexity.
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A complex bouquet, which has reductive elements as well as grapefruit and citrus fruit and sensitively handled oak adding toasty notes. Zesty feel to palate, lean and racy, brisk, citrus focused. This is a powerful Chardonnay with layers of white peach fruit interleaved with grapefruit on a well defined finish. It carries this off with panache…
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A Chardonnay that makes a statement about fruit purity. A layered wine with persistence, power and structure a true representation of this southern Margaret River vineyard.
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The Chardonnay is pretty unique, but it works well and there is peachiness and honey on the go, underpinned with stern minerality – it’s titillating and distinguished at the same time! Bursting with personality!
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There are citrus and barrel ferment aromatics, a touch of oak spice, beautiful grapefruity notes on the palate, with lovely chalk-like minerality holding the wine tight and enticingly moreish. Beguiling and elegant!
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We still find it hard to believe that Penfolds can make wines at this price and still make them taste this good. It’s not that we are going to argue, how can we? To get this level of complexity in a Chardonnay defies the odds. Melon peach and citrus all mingle amidst some judicious oak to make for a balanced and impressive Chardonnay.
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Complex and toasty, almost mealy on the bouquet, with ripe peach and straw. Richly textured but not heavy with a savoury finish.
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Finisterre: [Ends of the Earth] – focussing on single-variety, single-region wines with an emphasis on selected special sites that display our preferred characteristics. Hand-harvesting, fruit sorting and intuitive winemaking delivers small-parcel wines with clarity, purity, great texture and flavour expression.
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A well-balanced, Chardonnay with plenty of citrus and white peach notes, and some subtle, well-handled oak adding complexity and further structure on a lengthy finish.
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This is a ripe rich style of Margaret River Chardonnay—a veritable peach and melon meringue pie, with some toasty characters in the mix as well. The same intensity of fruit continues on the palate which is creamy but more poised and focused than the bouquet suggests, long on the finish.
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This is a ripe rich style of Margaret River Chardonnay—a veritable peach and melon meringue pie, with some toasty characters in the mix as well. The same intensity of fruit continues on the palate which is creamy but more poised and focused than the bouquet suggests, long on the finish.
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The Judd Chardonnay is a wonderful modern interpretation of the variety with layers of complexity and fruit weight balanced by the ever present acid line that runs through the core of this fantastic wine.
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Grown on a single site, the McCutcheon Vineyard. The palate is intensely powerful, but its drive is reigned in with a fine, racy structure of acid and phenolics. Imagine the vinous version of the famous ‘Chariots of Fire’ beach scene. Power and elegance in slow motion.
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Sourced from a small selection of Tyrrell’s favourite Chardonnay blocks on the estate. The bouquet shows lifted citrus with a slight hint of oak, the palate is weighted and generous and has the texture and complexities associated with time on lees.
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The Wirra Wirra Scrubby Rise Unwooded Chardonnay is a fantastic fruit driven style Chardonnay from McLaren Vale that exhibits peach, melon and citrus notes. A balanced and vibrant acid profile lengthen the palate beautifully.
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An opulent, complex, calm Chardonnay with fresh lemon and stone fruit highlights, exquisite oak, a fine mineral composition and a fresh, inspiriting conclusion.
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