Light, bright yellow colour with fresh green-apple, oatmeal and nashi pear aromas, fruit driving the bouquet, the palate intense and focused, concentrated and long, with subtlety, delicacy and yet also restrained power, and bright acidity. Some toasty nut flavours join in the party with time in the glass. A very smart chardonnay with a lot of class.

Yarra Yering Chardonnay feels both traditional and modern at once. It’s tight, zesty and fresh, with excellent fruit quality and power, though it also flashes a bit of (integrated) oak at you, which personally I enjoy (in chardonnay). White peach, custard apples, cedarwood and spice characters come infused with toast, cinnamon and smoked hay notes. It’s firm, long and delicious; you could drink this now or, just as easily, cellar it for a decade. From all angles this wine is immaculate.

Pale colour. Lifted verbena, lime, grapefruit aromas with flinty, tonic water notes. Generously concentrated with lime grapefruit, hint marzipan flavours, loose knit lacy textures and fresh long quartz acidity. Very good mid-palate volume and mineral length with underlying bitter lemon notes at the finish. Should develop well with some extra bottle age.