Chardonnay

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. A bold Chardonnay, initially closed, which opens up in the glass. Delicate creaminess, lemon zest and honeyed nuts on the palate. The complexity of this wine paired with its pure, long and dry finish, makes for the perfect food companion...

Coal River Valley, Tasmania.Summer fruits on the nose with white peach, rockmelon, and pear followed by a palate of candy apple, nectarine and toasted biscuit. Plenty of generosity and depth of character with a lean acid profile and seamlessly integrated oak...

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Lemon in colour, the nose offers a complex array of aromas: white peach, florals, flint and citrus. Nectarine and spicy grapefruit flavours emerge on the palate...

Yarra Valley, Victoria. Hand-picked and whole bunch pressed; a portion of juice was run off directly into barrels for wild fermentation. The balance was cold settled and racked prior to fermentation in barrel. During 10 months maturation in French oak (25% new), some barrels were regularly stirred to build texture and complexity... 

South Eastern Australia. Light yellow with hint of green colour. Fresh intense Chardonnay style showing some melon and peach fruit flavours balanced with some French spicy oak. Medium bodied wine balanced with some creamy flavours with some use of oak and having a long crisp finish...

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Bright intense pale straw colour. Lifted aromas of clean citrus notes, stone fruit and a hint of spicy French oak. A tightly focused palate, with lovely natural acidity and a long, complex finish...

Pays d’Oc, France. Crafted from grapes selected in distinct vineyards from Debussy’s best Chardonnay vines. The resulting wine is bright golden yellow in a glass. Mouthfilling with upfront, well-rounded, ripe spicy citrus flavours. No need to wait, drink now...

McLaren Vale, South Australia. ‘Almond Grove’ has obtained its name from the almonds which were widely grown in McLaren Vale on land which now bears our vineyards. Richard Hamilton is noted as the first to have planted Chardonnay in McLaren Vale (in 1972)...

Yarra Valley, Victoria. Umami. Mother's milk. Fatty: the first acids to hit the newborn tongue. Those fatty acids you find around isolvaleric aromas, which are often presignallers for calming human pheromones which then don't come. You need a real human mother to get real pheromones. But the very anticipation of them often leaves a frisson if not your actual fru-fru - you get these subliminal precursor signals sometimes as sidelines of secondary, or malo-lactic ferment...