Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2017

How well does a top Australian Chardonnay age? Here’s your answer. This is a wine boasting complexity plus. Eight years old and it is still very much on a journey of discovery and the journey is far from over. There is some development, some richness, but there is also a gorgeous core of bright fruit: yellow peach, nectarine, Asian pear dressed in pretty white florals and citrus blossom with a touch of crème fraiche and vanillin oak – all together, harmonious, round and complex. The oak takes it up to the fruit – this is a winemaker’s wine, after all – with a marriage of oak and ripe stone fruits and citrus producing an incredible array of flavours and textures. Has yonks to go. Available to Tapanappa club members only,