• French oak
• White peach
• Toast & struck flint
• Ripe acidity

"This limited release Chardonnay has a complex, fruity, nutty and spicy bouquet with aromas of yellow fleshed fruits and brazil-nut, clove and new sweet French barrel, plenty of citrus with grapefruit peel and apple, a touch of tropical and dry stone mineral moments. On the palate - full-bodied, youthful, firm, toasty and fruity with flavours of yellow stone-fruits, citrus and apple. Barrel flavours of brown spices and sweet oak, fine tannins, medium acidity and lengthy finish. A lovely complex wine with great palate feel and moreish flavours. Drink now and through 2022" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Apr 2020

"Intense, aromatic chardonnay with white peach, toast, nectarine, a suggestion of struck flint and spicy oak flavours. It's a robust and moderately complex wine, with a firm backbone of tannins and ripe acidity. Still youthful with plenty of time ahead" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Feb 2020

"Toasty and rich but still fresh, the 2016 Chardonnay Reserve is a terrfic effort. Pain grillé joins ripe peach and lemon curd on the nose, while the palate is full-bodied without being overly weighty, balancing size and refreshment in an ideal manner.Capping things off is a long, lingering finish that delivers nuances of cinnamon, clove, stone fruit and citrus. The 15% new oak is notice above but in balance with the concentrated fruit. Drink this over the next few years" Joe Czerwinski, Wine Advocate, Mar 2020

The Chardonnay is a wine full of concentration and poise. It has a broad mouthfeel, backed with firm acidity and salty minerality. The nose is savoury and complex, with finely-balanced oak and just a hint of warm orchard fruit. This wine will age gracefully.

The fruit was hand-sorted and whole-bunch pressed straight to barrel. Each parcel was naturally fermented in French oak, 15% of which was new, and went through naturally occurring malolactic fermentation. After 11 months in barrique and puncheons, the reserve wine was blended and transferred to old French puncheons for another 6 months. The wine was not fined and only lightly filtered before bottling.

Made from certified organic fruit grown on a biodynamically certified vineyard in the Omaka Valley.