2014 Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  4/13/2021 - Sunchek Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Drinking beautifully now. Akin to 1er Chablis. Tight citrus core that opens into some tropical notes. Well integrated oak adds a touch of vanilla sweetness. Great acid drive and length provide a wonderful finish.

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  11/27/2020 - winot Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Medium pale yellow, very youthful in appearance. Nose is steely, mineral, wet stones, Chablisesque, with a beam of lime rind. That follows thru to palate, the fruit is rich and austere at the same time, this holds loads of promise. There is a lot of material here. Tight dry finish suggests that this really needs to spend some time in the cellar. The results will be well worth the wait. Great now, but a lot of upside.

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  12/28/2018 - THECORKDORK Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Honestly, you'd never guess this were New World. IT tastes more like GREAT Chablis. Mineral, savory, and even a little sour cream/lees aromas. Hints of the tropics underneath it all which does give a subtle nod to the new world. I'm impressed that Australia really can do THIS.

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  12/26/2017 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Bought a single bottle out of curiosity. Would definitively guess Chablis blind. Pale yellow in the glass, matchsticks on the nose, plenty of citrus, white fruit. On the palate this has nice Chablis-like tension and good minerality, with a touch richer body but without being any sweeter than the old world original, green olives. Complex and very nice. Finish could be a touch longer perhaps. Very well done and certainly at the level of a very good 1er Cru Chablis.
  On the flipside, and I don't want to spoil the party here, but if you score this at 97 points like some of the Australian pro critics, why not simply buying a nice Montee de Tonnerre Chablis from a classic vintage? You get this and a even a little bit more, and the price tag is about the same (approx. $50-60), at least if you do not happen to live in Australia that is (ok, maybe that is the whole point, and this is really a wine more targeting the domestic market)...

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  11/17/2017 - StainedGlass wrote: 91 Points

  My first Tasmania Chard. I’m a fan. Sharp, taught minerality and chalkiness. Nice acidity. Old World style. 12.5% abv. I think it only improves with time.

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