Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2025
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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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.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
