Chardonnay is the chameleon of the grape world, capable of producing diverse age-worthy dry wine styles ranging from crisp and light through to powerful and textured. Part of Chardonnay's charm is its versatility, meaning it's a popular choice for wine lovers everywhere.
From full-bodied, often oaky, with buttery textures in California to crisp, rich and tropical flavours found in Australia, a glass of Chardonnay is always sure to delight.
Experience the crisp and balanced flavour profile of Chain Of Fire Chardonnay 2024. With notes of stone fruit and hints of citrus and peach, this refreshing white wine has a smooth and long finish.
This layered wine has subtle citrus, citrus flower, mineral, ripe melon, fig and hazelnut on the palate overlaid with a complexity from lees contact and savoury oak. The palate is full but elegant, with a seam of minerality adding length and balance. Tasting notes on the nose are aromas of roasted nuts, toasted brioche, subtle creaminess and a hint of smoke.
This value for money Chardonnay from regions in South Eastern Australia shows aromas of stone fruit with hints of pineapple and toasty oak. On the palate this refreshing white displays a rich texture with peach and pineapple flavours and a long, pleasant finish.
Cloudy Bay Chardonnay is one for connoisseurs and gastronomic adventurers: refined, poised and balanced. Painstakingly made using traditional techniques, it is a true ‘food wine’. Fruit from vineyards in the stony soils of Wairau Valley and the dense clay of the Southern Valleys work together to create a wine that marries ripe stone fruit and citrusy elegance.
The Coldstream Hills team has chosen the Chardonnay for this reserve wine from three select plots within the acclaimed Briarston Vineyard. This is translated into quality you can taste, with complex fruit and spice layers thanks to careful oak aging. This is a wine to enjoy now with substantial seafood dishes or to tuck away in the cellar for a few years.
Cookathama's Chardonnay is grown on estate vineyards along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in southern New South Wales. Harvested late at night to retain the freshness and crisp acid essential to good Chardonnay.
Fresh and pure with green mango and white peach fruit overlaid by notes of sea salt, riverstone and aniseed. The maturation in Clay Amphora is evident in the excellent chalky texture and the complex but fruit driven palate. Flavours of lime, nectarine and pink grapefruit are given tension and profile by a fine mineral acid backbone.
Brilliant pale straw to straw colour with a glimmer of green around the outskirts and a watery hue. Aromas of pear and bees wax mix with lemon butter, faint cashew and spice. Rich pear, peach and honeycomb flavours have a creamy feel overlaying a background of bacon fat and spice. A dash of lemony acidity lends some freshness to the texturally full conclusion.
An excellent fresh and complex Chardonnay. Pale straw in colour, ripe peach & white melon flavours, well intergrated French oak, complex, long and flavoursome.
Dalwood Estate Chardonnay grows in sandy loam soil on the south bank of the Hunter River. The vintage was warm with plentiful rainfall in preceding winter and spring. The fruit was picked in early February and is exotic with ripe flavours of peach and melon, and a creamy palate with well-integrated oak.
This Chardonnay shows generous, exotic flavours of peach and melon, layered over a creamy palate with well-integrated oak. Balanced and expressive, it’s a refined yet approachable wine that drinks beautifully now.
Pale-white, straw and hay. Clear and bright. Fresh bread and custard; green apples just picked, apple skin and apple strudel - cold. Aromatics and bouquet demonstrate the fine and also effortless balance between cool-climate chardonnay fruit and deft, demure oak’s distraction. The nose hints at richness but lurking so quietly in the background is honeydew and lotus flower and a secret citrus grove freshly rained upon. Clear clean striking lines of vibrant acidity around which lovingly cling peach, green apple, nectarine and melon fruit bursts. Concentration, then texture, and then richness at the very core. A swathe of just ripe fruit flavours return, then more acidity, then a long and lingering finish. As a glass of fine wine, it might seem effortless and easy to like, but there is a lot of wine in that one glass, and a lot to discover.
It's bold and rich with robust notes of charred toast, melted butter and tinned peaches. A round and ripe style with a touch of bitterness to the finish.
Pale straw in colour. Aromas of white peach, nectarines with some floral undertones. The palate is fresh and full with more strong stone fruit flavours.
Very pale straw with a green tinge. Tight and bright early picked peach and melon notes carried on a weighty palate, culminating in a fresh & crisp finish with the most interesting of cashewy oak nuances.
The colour is a light to medium straw. It has notes of complex white peach, grilled nuts & lifted citrus aromas. Textural, creamy, buttery palate with a fine acid finish.
