Holm Oak Chardonnay 2025
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Three clones of Chardonnay were racked to 30% new French oak barrels and the remainder in seasoned oak. 50% went through malolactic fermentation and matured with occasional lees stirring. This is already a very giving wine, generous in plush in its peach and cooked nectarine, with lemon curd and Swiss vanilla buttercream. Acidity steers the wine along, maintaining a zippy edge to the fruit power, but fruit as always in this wine speaks with the most confidence. It feels like a miniscule amount of salt has seasoned the wine, appropriately as this is a wine you will want to keep sipping on. Drink now or will cellar well for another 5-8 years. Serve with a celeriac cream and panfried slab of cod.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
