2023 Bannockburn Chardonnay 750Ml Bottle
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I reviewed this for my vertical Bannockburn tasting report back in June last year, and it’s presenting in the same excellent vein. Vibrant pale straw colour with flecks of green. Cracked wheat and hay melds with ripe lemon, peach skin and flesh, with gentle buttered toast, cedar, and subtle pastry dough in support. A lovely cut of minerality slices through the aromatic power bringing freshness and further complexity. There’s a masterful balance of tension and power to the palate. Ripe lemon, hay, white peach, and white nectarine sit within a buoyant, creamy texture before a clean line of acid pulls it to great length. Freshness and concentration in equal measure with lovely line, definition, purity and length. Drink from 2025-2038. Tasted Feb 2025.
96 points, Tom Kline - Inside Burgundy
"There’s ample flavour and texture here but the length of this wine is wow. It tastes of grilled peaches, green pineapple, straw, herbs and cedarwood. There’s real flavour here, and a creaminess to the texture, but there’s a real cut to the wine as well. It arguably needs a bit of time to soften. It thrusts its way through the finish, drawing flavour along with it. In 15 year’s time people will be pulling well-cellared bottles of this out and marvelling at how youthful it seems." 94+ pts - Campbell Mattinson, thewinefront.com.
That sounds like a Meursault note, doesn't it? Winemaker Matt Holmes and frontman Gus Pollard, are happy about this wine, from a very low yielding and "cooler" year. In 30% of the barrels the MLF was blocked, giving the wine more "verve" and it has all the normal Bannockburn power but less "buttery" and "ripe pineapple" character than usual. The texture, richness and "tension with a certain slipperiness" are all impressive.