Winery: Petaluma
Region: Piccadilly, Adelaide Hills
Variety: Chardonnay
Your Wine Guy says:
A rather intense concentration of nectarine and white peach fruit aromas and flavours are well balanced against with a soft, creaminess along with some savoury notes derived from the barrel fermentation. The texture is pure Piccadilly Chardonnay, viscous without oiliness, leading to a dry finish without hardness. A great textured wine with lovely lingering flavour. Adelaide Hills is producing some of the best Chardonnay in Australia, if not the world.
94 Points YWG
Critics say:
Hand picked fruit, 60% new oak from Diggle and Jiggle and 90% malo-lactic fermentation are the key points in the extensive technical bits that Petaluma always seem to provide…just in case you were wondering. It presents as a more subdued and genteel wine with white peach, nectarine, grilled nuts and spicy smoky oak. On the palate medium bodied with an attractive flinty mineral texture offset by more creamy ‘banana split’ characters. It has fine acidity and feels beautifully balanced, controlled and composed throughout. It’s smooth and polished with no sharp edges or vulgar fruitiness and closes with a long dry flint edged finish. A wine of considerable charm and sophistication.
94 Points Gary Walsh, Winorama
Precise and polished bouquet of grapefruit, nectarine and grilled nuts; the palate is silky and fine with tightly wound fruit, and very fine acidity; gloriously long and harmonious. Screwcap. 14% alc.
Rating 96 Drink 2016 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion