Golding The Exchange Chardonnay 2022

The naming of this wine has deep history with the Golding family’s Adelaide Produce Market trader background, dealing in a range of produce from the Adelaide Hills. The produce now is all about the wine trade, here touting a value-end Chardonnay, the regional hero white variety attracting plenty of attention these days. This is more towards the yellow stone fruit spectrum end, with a definite Middle Eastern spice note, citrus elements suggesting pink grapefruit at the centre of the palate, with a creaminess in the texturals to confirm the wine’s richer feels, while oak only raises its head in spicier finishing notes. Value for those into a richer-style Chardonnay.

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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