[SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2021
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[SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2021

ANDREW CAILLARD 100 POINTS!
WINE ADVOCATE 100 POINTS!
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PERFECT SCORE FOR A WHITE WINE FROM WINE ADVOCATE

 

**Extremely Limited Wine. Only 3 per customer**

 

"The 2021 Giaconda Estate Vineyard Chardonnay hails from Beechworth, about a three-hour drive north (and slightly east) of Melbourne. This wine expresses equally of Chardonnay and of Beechworth; its reduction and oak are delectable hallmarks (and, as I discovered recently, are intense even by Burgundian standards), and the intertwined drive of fruit and acid in this cool vintage are hitherto unmatched by previous vintages. This is a Great Wine by any standard globally. I am proud to give it a perfectly rounded score of 100 points.

This wine, the 2021 Giaconda Estate Vineyard Chardonnay, certainly made me feel like I had not another choice but to give it a perfectly rounded score. It came down to understanding that I no longer required anything further from this wine. I could not conceive of a single thing that I would change about it if I could (except of course, at this stage, its lack of presence in my cellar). I have seen other vintages countless times blind (in both a national and an international context, pictured below), revealed in the same conditions, in verticals, solo and for leisure. It has never failed to impress upon me the grandeur, scale and consistency of Giaconda as a producer; the only variation has been vintage expression and bottle format (and occasionally, with older bottles, cork condition)." - Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

 

"Medium pale colour. Intense flinty, lemon glace, grapefruit, nectarine, beeswax, wetstone hint matchstick aromas. Beautifully seductive wine with gorgeous ripe nectarine, lemon glace, grapefruit flavours, expressive flinty, waxy notes, fine loose knit al dente textures, superb creamy viscosity, underlying marzipan, vanilla notes and wonderfully integrated acidity. Extraordinary wine. This is a brilliant Giaconda Chardonnay with superb density, fruit complexity, flow and mineral length. Australian Grand Cru. Absolute genius." - Andrew Caillard

 

 

 

Farming   Organic   Sustainably-made  


Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Beechworth
Variety:
Wine White - Chardonnay
Size:
750mL

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$375.00

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Maximum Purchase:
3 units