Scarborough Wine Co. The Obsessive Chardonnay 2022

Inviting on the nose with warm spice, pithy lemon, lightly toasted oak and salted butter and gun flinty, popcornesque overtones. This is a delightful Chardonnay, and it’s clear to see that these wines are all cut from the same cloth, albeit each in their own way. The fruit sweetness is still clear as a bell at the core here, ripe yellow stone fruit, honeyed melon and custard apple, encased in some solid toasty oak. The acidity is fine and lively, lifting this along and providing some great structural scaffolding for the fruit flesh. The oak is punchy and purposeful (if a little warm on the back palate), and I imagine it will be the divider for those in the “love it” or “not so much” camps on this wine. Plenty of enjoyment.