2023 Paringa Estate Chardonnay
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The 2023 The Paringa Single Vineyard Chardonnay is highly aromatic, and the palate matches with an intense score of fruit, spice, saline acidity and fine phenolic structure. This lingers and curls across the palate and streaks out to the long finish. It has penetrating flavor and is really good—unreal, in fact. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
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Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
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The 2023 Estate Chardonnay is pert and taut, with lemon rind, pink grapefruit, white peach, green apple and layers of crushed nuts and shells. This is a pretty wine, with persistent length and quiet intensity. Balanced and supple, it's driven by crystalline acidity. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
Fruit from two vineyards, mostly the Mudgee clone. Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, fermented in new and used French oak barrels. Some barrels undergo spontaneous fermentation and some go through malo. Monthly lees stirring. Touch of praline on the nose and then into lemon-candy acidity – bright and young and sweet and parallel. Lemon sherbet and lemon curd. Pistachio; candied almond; stollen. Fresh, summer-morning, bright-yellow character with sassy acidity. (TC)