Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2025

The producer notes 2025 as a vintage of extremes, a true roller coaster ride with the driest growing season morphing into one of the warmest and earliest vintages on record. Each vintage produces its own personality and in the Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay’s case, it is a ripe richness that immediately saturates the senses. It’s one lovely, complex, warm and cuddly Chardonnay. Aromas are open and inviting: yellow peach, nectarine, lemon zest, leesy mealy notes, grilled cashews, nougat with a lemon sorbet zing. Flavours evolve into a smooth celebration of everything citrus with lemon, grapefruit, pastille and zest to the fore in harmony with stone fruits, baked quince, grilled nuts and a gentle woody spice. It’s definitely a forward style for the region and the producer and is superb drinking now, but the potential remains for short to medium term aging.