Community Tasting Notes 19

• fizz wrote:

  April 11, 2024 - Screw cap. 13.5% abv.
  Sweet lemon barley, peach, saline. Agree with previous comments of pepper and ginger in there too. Medium weight, with a fine acid line keeping it fairly taut and long on the palate. Drink or hold.

  Comment

• Screwcaps Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 15, 2021 - 15 Holyman
  Supper savoury nose with time in decanter. Then that perky lime. Lemon drops, white pepper, lean as helll, Granny Smith malic acid sizzles. Mealy, ginger biscuits provide texture to soak up the juicy acidity. Long, fresh and crunchy. A wine of two halves, savoury and lean. Drink in 3 to 5. 94

  Comment

• felixp Likes this wine: 97 points

  November 17, 2020 - Amazingly good Aussie chardonnay, easily the best white I have seen come out of Tasmania, and would rival good vintages of Australia's premier white wine, LEAS.
  The only disappointing aspect of this lovely wine is that the winery have not, thus far, been able to produce another vintage that comes even close to the 2015.
  Seek it out and buy it. Marvellous. Plenty of time in it's tank.

  Comment

• felixp Likes this wine: 95 points

  July 14, 2020 - still an infant, screwcap closure will ensure another decade of development.
  This will be something special from 2025 onwards.

  Comment

• Screwcaps Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 5, 2020 - 2015 Holyman Chardonnay
  Light weight, lean pithy lemon, classy spicey oak, with touches of honey and toast developing through the finish. Still light yellow in colour. Drink just a smidge below room temperature to gain weight or colder to reveal I it’s lemon barley and grassy character- had me in mind of Hunter Semillon if it were not for spicy oak and sulphides. Delicious now. 4.25/5 94 points.

  Comment

Pro Reviews 4

Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type White
• Producer Stoney Rise
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Holyman
• Country Australia
• Region Tasmania
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a
• UPC Code 9331597000090

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 1 (1%)
• In Cellars 111 (59%)
• Consumed 77 (41%)

Food Pairing

Who Likes This Wine

More About This Wine