Xanadu Margaret River Reserve Chardonnay 2024

Xanadu is quite aware, I am sure, that with two top level Chardonnays in your portfolio you need to show difference. If Stevens Road is immediately, gorgeously, accessible now, then the Reserve Chardonnay is, well, more reserved, tighter, finer, with a more significant role given to what is a striking acidity. In other words, it’s probably going to be the longer keeper of the two – you might say, the first among equals. A strong backbone supports a wealth of white peach, apple, citrussy lemon, grapefruit, lime zest with almond mealiness and hazelnut in the background. It is a deeply concentrated wine, growing in texture and no doubt stature as it ages, with an astounding long finish that just goes and goes. Less outward exuberance, more purity and fineness.