Wynns Black Label Messenger Chardonnay 2025

Sourced from the Messenger vineyard at the southern end of Coonawarra’s Terra Rossa strip, there’s a purity of fruit here to be celebrated without the artefact of winemaking stealing away its essence. White nectarine, a waft of lime with a raw almond creaminess opening proceedings, the palate echoing the aromas with tightly packed Chardonnay fruit, green pear notes included, oak way back in the rear, that nuttiness adding a natural richness to the flavours, no timber but a whisper of vanilla after 9 months in 28% new French oak. No mucking around with the fruit at all – it has a distinctive personality here and has been treated with the utmost respect by the most empathetic winemaking.