Great freshness with balanced oak. Lemon, vanilla, green apple, crushed stones, and creams. The wine kept improving during the 8-hour aeration. However, my father drank the rest half bottle when the rest of us left for a couple minutes. I am not sure where the wine will go, but potentially 94pt after another 3-5 years in the cellar.
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Distinctively cool climate style. Fruits from Tasmania, Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills.
Started off with cooler fruit spectrum, green apple, lime, lemon juice, starfruit, grapefruit that intermix with orange blossom, gunflint, bit of smoke, crushed stones and underlying vanilla infused toasty oak. Zesty, linear and focused. It is sharp with flinty mineral in style. Elegant! Still a bit reserved now, judging from the track records of Yattarna, it might only reach its peak after a decade. 13%abv. Aged 8 months in 60% new French barrique.
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Wine Bros Australia Deep Dive (Orsay): I’m not really a Chardonnay person so take this with a grain of salt. This was the rounder and slightly buttery style. It feels a bit warmer in style. A bit too chard for me.
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On holiday. Screw-cap. Drank and sampled over 24 hours. Appearance is clear, very pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of flint stones minerality, white peach, citrus lemon sherbet, lime, crushed chalk and limestone, almond nut oil. Developing. On the palate, dry, tingly high acidity, medium alcohol (13%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon drops, green lime, white peach, well nicely integrated roasted nut oak, enveloping chalk flint stony minerality. Nuttiness more obvious as it warms up. Long limey salty minerally finish. Very very good quality. So chock full of flavour yet refined and polished. Can only get better with more age. I'll keep my older bottle to see how it performs with age.
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Exquisite pure white peach with some citrus and aniseed. It is direct and intense, with great shape and a core of sappy orchard fruits. It has wonderful clarity, latent power and a finish that drives on and on.
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Penfolds dinner. Very youthful and intense next to the 2011. Expressive nose of lemon with vanilla and oak spices. Very more of everything palate, high acidity, medium-full bodied, Chassagne in a reductive style like a Paul Pillot for example. Very good quality, but I would give this a few more years of bottle age to let it tame.
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4/3/2024 - etyc Likes this wine:
Tasted/drank... "sunshine" fruit... A very nice Chard - would count this as one of Oz's best...
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1/30/2024 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:
Australia Trade Tasting (Lindley Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls): Highly oaky, flinty, fruit way in the back, smoky, palate is more fruit forward, better balanced, citrus and stone fruit, med body and finish
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11/20/2023 - Ohlawuly Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great freshness with balanced oak. Lemon, vanilla, green apple, crushed stones, and creams. The wine kept improving during the 8-hour aeration. However, my father drank the rest half bottle when the rest of us left for a couple minutes. I am not sure where the wine will go, but potentially 94pt after another 3-5 years in the cellar.
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3/8/2023 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 Points
Distinctively cool climate style. Fruits from Tasmania, Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills.
Started off with cooler fruit spectrum, green apple, lime, lemon juice, starfruit, grapefruit that intermix with orange blossom, gunflint, bit of smoke, crushed stones and underlying vanilla infused toasty oak. Zesty, linear and focused. It is sharp with flinty mineral in style. Elegant! Still a bit reserved now, judging from the track records of Yattarna, it might only reach its peak after a decade. 13%abv. Aged 8 months in 60% new French barrique.
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2/18/2023 - MC2 Wines wrote:
Wine Bros Australia Deep Dive (Orsay): I’m not really a Chardonnay person so take this with a grain of salt. This was the rounder and slightly buttery style. It feels a bit warmer in style. A bit too chard for me.
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11/6/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote: 93 Points
Very fine. Elegant and beautifully balanced. Finely integrated light oak with its zingy citrus core fruit. Great length as expected
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6/5/2022 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 Points
On holiday. Screw-cap. Drank and sampled over 24 hours.
Appearance is clear, very pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of flint stones minerality, white peach, citrus lemon sherbet, lime, crushed chalk and limestone, almond nut oil. Developing.
On the palate, dry, tingly high acidity, medium alcohol (13%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon drops, green lime, white peach, well nicely integrated roasted nut oak, enveloping chalk flint stony minerality. Nuttiness more obvious as it warms up. Long limey salty minerally finish.
Very very good quality. So chock full of flavour yet refined and polished. Can only get better with more age. I'll keep my older bottle to see how it performs with age.
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4/20/2022 - robferguson1 wrote: 92 Points
Promises much and delivers but price is high
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8/30/2021 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Exquisite pure white peach with some citrus and aniseed. It is direct and intense, with great shape and a core of sappy orchard fruits. It has wonderful clarity, latent power and a finish that drives on and on.
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3/2/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
Penfolds dinner. Very youthful and intense next to the 2011. Expressive nose of lemon with vanilla and oak spices. Very more of everything palate, high acidity, medium-full bodied, Chassagne in a reductive style like a Paul Pillot for example. Very good quality, but I would give this a few more years of bottle age to let it tame.
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