Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

This wine has been on the market for a while and is now mostly sold out but that extra time in bottle has been a blessing, as it is with many top end chardonnays. In fact – contrary to popular opinion – I would argue that quality chardonnay often benefits more from a bit of extra time in the bottler than, say, shiraz does.

In any case this straw-coloured wine is in a beautiful drinking place right now. It’s flinty, it’s zippy, it’s awash with white peach and pears flavours but it’s the inputs of grapegruit, butter, curry leaf and flint that really get the pulse elevated. This is a seriously gorgeous bottle of Australian chardonnay. It’s long, flavoursome, racy and more. This would match it with all-comers.

AU $70, 13.5% alc, screwcap.