Mayer is the small Yarra Valley label of Timo Mayer, made from his own hillside vineyard on the Steels Creek escarpment and from trusted growers in the valley. The Chardonnay for this release comes from Hans and Anna Orth's vineyard at Coldstream, with vines planted in the traditional close-spaced Burgundian layout. Farming is low-intervention, favouring vine balance and early picking to preserve acidity and drive. Mayer's house style is deliberately pure, precise and unembellished. The 2024 Yarra season produced fruit of good concentration; critics found this bottling a touch richer than the prior year yet with more tension, giving a bright green-gold wine of power and cut.

The fruit is whole-bunch pressed and the juice fermented in seasoned hogsheads, where it spends around six months before a further period of roughly three months in stainless steel to lock in freshness and clarity. In keeping with Mayer's approach there is minimal intervention, with malolactic fermentation and lees stirring kept to a minimum so the wine retains its citrus drive, chalky texture and saline finish. The result is a full-bodied but tightly wound, focused Chardonnay with pronounced length. Only seasoned oak is used, prioritising fruit and mineral definition over overt oak character.