Awards and Accolades

2013 Vintage:

Campbell Mattinson - Australian Wine Companion: 95
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain and this is squarely in the former camp. It shows a wealth of oak, in some ways, and yet it pulls it off with flair. It tastes of oatmeal, peach, grapefruit and cedar spice; it's slippery smooth; it lingers terrifically. Chardonnay drinkers far and wide will adore this.

Rob Geddes Mw Australian Wine Vintages 33rd Edition 2016: 92
compact cool climate fruit with subtle flint, marzipan and pear aromas. The fresh subtle palate leads to pears; good texture and mouth feel that builds complexity and persistence. Refined style from a quality maker. 92 points.

Steve Leszczynski, Qwine, May 2015:
you'd pay twice the RRP and still be very happy with this. It just ticks all the boxes and will leave glasses empty in no time. Terrifically balanced and well made. A sessional type. Freshly cut nectarine and peach, lemony tang followed by a grapefruit overtone. Butter cream rolls through courtesy of ten months on lees. That nectarine just hangs on in desperation as does the creamy oak. In all, it's smart. Very smart. And well priced too. Worth tracking down. Very good.

Regan Drew Vinonotebook.Com, February 2015:
handpicked and sourced from different blocks of the estate. Stainless steel tank and French oak (wild yeast) fermentation without passing into malolactic fermentation.
Ripe peach to soft rockmelon to cashew cream with a hint of flinty, struck match character. Full and ripe palate without being overbearing: there’s an authoritative shout of fruit, then a whisper of structure, then an embrace of the wine simply being. A wine that is exactly colour by numbers Yarra chardonnay and I simply can’t fault how true it is to its intentions.

Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front, February 2015:
if I was a sommelier i would have this on the list lickety-split. It keeps all-comers happy and yet it’s quality. Those who want rich: tick. Those who want lengthy: tick. Those who like oak: tick. It’s far more than colour by numbers but it’s a wine that inherently understands chardonnay, and its drinkers. It’s bold and persistent and charming and attractive. Stonefruit, oatmeal, grapefruit and a sizeable serve of slippery-smooth oak. Nails it.

Michael Ellis Winepunter.Com, February 2015:
the fruit for this wine is hand picked from various vineyards within the Tarrawarra estate.
It's a lovely tension between lean and lush with a consistent savoury element running throughout. You notice a burnt toffee and butterscotch character on the finish, which is both long and powerful. In the mouth however, it's less full-bore.
The lemon citrus acidity features and is balanced by a texture that is nutty and almost creamy due to time spent on lees in barrel. It's difficult to identify one particular feature that stands out which suggests this is a well balanced wine.
Balance and subtlety is often underrated by fellow punters in the pursuit of 'wow', but after the bells and whistles of other wines becomes too noisy, that subtlety is comforting.
I tasted this amongst 5 other whites last night. It was the only empty bottle at the end of the night.