Little Giant Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2024

As ever, the Little Giant range is in what I think of as squat bots. They might not be traditional but they are rather cute and do just as good a job. Never let those receptacles put you off. Chardonnay from the Adelaide Hills here, from a range of clones, the team employ whole bunch pressing direct to oak for fermentation, followed by three months on lees and then a further six months in large format older French oak barrels. Straw with flecks of green hue, this is well structured, if inevitably youthful. There is a finely crafted framework of oak which supports the stone fruit, citrus, floral and ginger notes. A wine of medium length, fine balance, juicy acidity and a lingering finish, it is attractive drinking now and over the next three years.