Holm Oak The Wizard Chardonnay 2025
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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Over half went through malolactic fermentation and new French oak. The season has ripened this Chardonnay fruit to its full expression with peaches and mango skin, guava and Meyer lemon. Plumes of nutmeg and cinnamon powder and some Jonquil like intensity of white flowers. A sherbert-like succulence, acidity maintains a good pace throughout and overall this is generous, lip smacking and everything you want in creamy, buttery orchard fruit centred Chardonnay. A plump lobster roll will do very nicely. Drink now or cellar for another 3-5 years.
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.
