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Region: Beechworth
Grapes: Chardonnay
First Glance: Flinty, Pastry Cream, Nectarine, Textural
Acclaim: 96pts
The Wine:
Bright pale straw. Aromas of cashew cream, almond blossom and white peach, along with a smudge of flint and warm biscotti.
The palate has some worked creaminess yet is restrained in weight, with a certain slatey mineral anchor and Meyer lemon acid carriage. With time in glass, some hints of herb garden show through.
The Review:
Tom Kline, Wine Pilot - 96pts
"A good punch of resin, cedar and slightly rubbery reduction at the fore, before a delicious unfurling of flint, clotted cream, apple crumble, a saline note with air, and some nectarine flesh filling it out. Good balance to the palate, which is textural and fulsome. Green apple, pastry dough, toasty cedar, and nectarine sit within a pillowy texture cut by assertive, tight chalky phenolics and waves of cleansing acidity to a very long finish. There's a journey to this wine as it unfurls and shape shifts from first smell to final taste. These guys are on fire with Chardonnay. Complex, architectural, intense and ageworthy. A big yes from me."
