Stonier Reserve Chardonnay 2024
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Take the adoration you have for Stonier, the brand, but open your heart to the articulate eye of its new caretaker. This is a brand new day in Stonier’s tale, with one eye on the past and both feet striding forward. Predominantly from 40+ year old vines, north and east facing. Wild ferment, no battonage, partial malo and into French puncheons of which 19% is new. The wine is a wisp of salt spray and silver woolly bush leaves, dropped backyard lemons and crunchy nectarines. The peeling back of an artifact is tangible with purity of white fleshed citrus fruit at its core. Some self raising flour and cream cheese creaminess on the finish. Linear but with its tissue and threads of power that pull at the flavour for very long moments. A bright and crystal clear wine that stands confidently in its grounded roots. A wine for snapper fillets, a light dredge of flour and beef tallow chips. Drink now or will cellar well for another decade or more. This is the junction point of Stonier Chardonnay, centred with a clear path laid ahead of it. Watch this space, this is wine I would like to see again in 3, 5 and 10 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.
