Refined oak nose, oak characteristics partly offset by stone fruit on palate. Long finish, citrus trying to emerge, but oak still dominating. Prefer the regular HRB
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2016 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting & Trophy Wines Lunch (Olympic Park, Homebush): (silver medal; 94p) {screwcap, A$60} Surprisingly developed; sweaty and oily. Dry, heavily worked chardonnay, half-way between the modern acerbic style and the old oaky, buttery efforts. This one is neither one-nor-the-other; less flinty than the nose promised, as though the winemakers said ‘we’ve still got to give them a heap of oak and malo character’. Actual overt fruit is hard to find, but there isn’t a vineyard-derived complexity to offset it either. The resulting palate is driven by (quality) oak, but that’s really all. No value in this; drink up soon.
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5/6/2017 - jmcmchi wrote:
Refined oak nose, oak characteristics partly offset by stone fruit on palate. Long finish, citrus trying to emerge, but oak still dominating.
Prefer the regular HRB
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7/8/2016 - graemeg wrote:
2016 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting & Trophy Wines Lunch (Olympic Park, Homebush): (silver medal; 94p) {screwcap, A$60} Surprisingly developed; sweaty and oily. Dry, heavily worked chardonnay, half-way between the modern acerbic style and the old oaky, buttery efforts. This one is neither one-nor-the-other; less flinty than the nose promised, as though the winemakers said ‘we’ve still got to give them a heap of oak and malo character’. Actual overt fruit is hard to find, but there isn’t a vineyard-derived complexity to offset it either. The resulting palate is driven by (quality) oak, but that’s really all. No value in this; drink up soon.
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