Hoddles Creek Estate Chardonnay 2019

Hoddles Creek Estate Chardonnay 2019Led by winemaking guru Franco D'Anna, the team at Hoddles Creek produce wonderful chardonnay year in and year out that seriously overdeliver at the price point. The wines are made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley. "It's a juicy one this year, offering plenty of peach and pear flavour, a little oatmeal, cashew and cinnamon, but with a pink grapefruit tang. It's flinty and spicy, a ball of flavour that pulls longer,

From the Larnoo and Jenbel Vineyards

The young dog gets his meal and devours it oh so fast

Pinot noir of this quality at this price truly defies the odds

Like all vineyards in the Frankland river region it benefits from the cool nights and long

and carried by fine-grained

Structure is big solid layered and tight with an intricate diverse level of complexity

with a wonderful complexity of deep-set dark cherries

in a random pattern

winemaker Wayne Stehbens completed his 35th vintage at Katnook Estate

It reminded me of some 2005 Paulliacs

"The best Cape Mentelle cabernet for years is incredibly fine and elegant yet incredibly powerful and robust at the same time: it has utterly pristine regional/varietal flavours of tiny blackcurrants and eucalypt as well as massive

cinnamon and potpourri notes