Vasse Felix Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $46
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Part of the Premier range, this fruit comes from some of the best vineyards in Margaret River. Aromatically, white nectarine and sun-kissed grapefruit add flesh to a backbone of subtle oak and a flinty, sea breeze minerality. A honeyed note of wattle blossoms draws you back in for another sniff, before revealing base notes of sultry sumac. Fermented entirely with wild yeast in French before 10 months maturation in oak (30% new) – the winemaking allows the quality of the fruit to shine. Initially plush and silky with a citrus tang , that same flinty minerality uncoils along the palate. A hint of struck match. Poise and restraint. Bright and youthful still, there’s plenty of cellaring potential.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
