[SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2011

Ralph Kyte-Powell 97 points!
"This superb Beechworth chardonnay has mineral, struck match and yeasty mystery with a luxurious undercurrent of fruits and oak. The palate has creamy richness with superb finesse, finishing long and dry."
The Age, 14th May 2013.

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Gourmet Traveller 96 points!
Strong, smoky bacon bouquet with toasty oak and low-level sulphides giving considerable complexity. Full-bodied with a very intense palate. Concentrated and yet refined and elegant.
Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine August/September 2013.

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Campbell Mattinson 96 points!
An international wine of leisure. Tastes like an American in Paris. Liberace world tour. A self-made man from a south-facing hillside. The beach of an ancient volcano. Beechworth. Kinzbrunner. Soils of smithereened granite and gravel. Money. Wet cold summer.

A fundamentally flamboyant wine, all frills and funk, glitter and glam. Putting it near your nose is like staring into the sun. It's so smoky. So funky. Like liquid smoke and burnt matches and fennel seeds bashed. This will cause many a drinker to pause, lest their face shatter before their partner's eyes. The palate is a hard white body, gloves off, all talent and fury. The intensity of rolling thunder. Broad shoulders of white peach and bran and liquid smoke. Notes of twigs and chalk sparkle like talent. Fists of smoky acid. You talking to me? The winemaker's fingers. The dance. The keyboard. The land as a stage. The toasty extremes. I don't see anyone else here. Tonight, we drink. The zephyr of gunsmoke. An Australian chardonnay king, in full robe. War in a glass. The journey has come to this.
Wine Front, 2nd August 2013.

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  Organic   Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Beechworth

Variety:

Wine White - Chardonnay

Size:

750mL