2021 Reserve Chardonnay
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Coming from unirrigated vines, the 2021 Estate Reserve Chardonnay offers hints of key lime pie with elegant oak tones that waft from the glass with precision and finesse. Medium-bodied, the wine compresses in the mouth, showing a beautiful blanket of oak with impeccable focus before the wine grows in amplitude and resonates with a long, brilliant finish. It's a fantastic Chardonnay that performs like a baby Burgundy.
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William Kelley (Robert Parker)
Neal Martin (Vinous)
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This vineyard, O'Keefe says, gives tiny bonsai bunches of grapes. Spontaneous fermentation in 500-litre barrels. Golden fruit and golden nuttiness. Hazelnuts and cashew nuts. A tapestry of flavours that feels very gently tannic, like running your fingers over a tightly stretched canvas, waiting to be painted. The ripe-apple fruit is layered with notes of wild grass, hay and roasted acorns, embedding savouriness and subtle fragrance into the richness. Really long and beautiful with the structure to develop gracefully for many years ahead. (TC)
The 2021 Chardonnay Estate Reserve is 100% from Greyton matured for 11 months in 500-litre barrels, 40% new. It has a wonderful bouquet with honeydew melon, apricot blossom and light crushed stone scents that percolate through with time. The palate is very well balanced with tropical hints of passion fruit and guava, but the acidity keeps everything on a tight course, very minerally on the finish. Top class.