2023 Bannockburn S.R.H. Chardonnay 750Ml Bottle

2023 Bannockburn S.R.H. Chardonnay 750Ml Bottle

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Deep and alluring aromas of hay and sweet nettle yield to fresh ripe peach, preserved lemon, grilled nectarine, subtle kumquat marmalade and custard with pastry dough and cinnamon stick to follow. Struck match and cedar sit as a seasoning and there’s some salted hazelnut, too, adding dimension. Air brings it all together, making for an incredible complex and balanced aromatic profile. There’s good volume and concentration to a full bodied and chewy palate, coating the mouth with stone fruits, citrus preserves, lemon butter, hay and cinnamon before a constriction of it all thanks to firm phenolics and briney acidity. It’s uber-textural and powerful, though it’s architectural structure sweeps it up and drives it long through the palate. Very long, in fact. Another brilliant SRH release. Drink from 2025-2038. Tasted Feb 2025.
97 points, Tom Kline - Inside Burgundy
 

The 2023 SRH Chardonnay is textural and taut; it is bound in phenolics at this point, but clearly superb. The length of flavor shows this. The complexity shows this. It's a hugely impressive wine that speaks of white peach, green apples, green olive brine, white strawberries and white pepper. It's salty and a little chewy. This will be a seriously great wine-give it time. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. (96) ERIN LARKIN

The 12 rows of chardonnay that this wine is picked from are unique on the Bannockburn property in that they sit on an ancient sea bed. They were planted in the mid 1970s.
The intensity of flavour here is significant. This is a rocket of a wine. Grapefruit, lime, lemon curd, sweet peach, tinned pear and pineapple characters come wrapped in smoky-sweet cedarwood. Acidity, barley-and-lemon-drenched, is prominent too, in keeping with the power of the fruit. It needs time for certain, but this is quite a wine. (95+) CAMPBELL MATTINSON

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