This wine has a bouquet of intense white peach and citrus fruit with a background of nutty oak and buttery complexity.  White peach, melon and citrus fruit flavours are quite fresh and long on the palate, which marry well with the nutty, cedar oak flavours.  The texture is soft and creamy and has been enhanced by malo-lactic characters.  The wine has a long presence on the palate and is balanced by a fresh acid finish.

Gorgeous, fragrant and attractive.  Fruit aromas of lemon blossom, white peach, layered with nutty, smokey, vanillin oak.  Touch of barrel ferment character and buttery notes from malolactic fermentation add interest. The palate is zesty complex and long with loads of flavour.  Great fruit intensity, a creamy soft mouth feel, integrated oak and a fine tight acid structure all adds up to a extremely classy wine.

Aromas of pears and stone fruits gain complexity from touches of soft oak spice.  This chardonnay displays rich fruit flavours on the palate with well-balanced acidity across the firm finish. Enjoy now or over the next three to five years.

The 2006 chardonnay benefited from the cool February period.  The grapes ripened slowly and wine displays subtle peach and melon characters.  The palate shows full yeasty characters from lees contact.  The oak is very subtle allowing the fruit to dominate. The wine finishes with clean crisp acid.

"Tight, restrained and beautifully structured, the Kooyong Clonale Chardonnay is close to perfection, particularly at this price point. On the palate, you'll find softer textures and flavours of ripe peaches, but there is a persistent seam of citrus acid tingle all the way through the wine.  There's even a hint of minerality like good chablis.  Sublime."

The nose has characteristic Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay aromas and intensity, showing ripe pears, cashew nuts, creme brulee and hints of toasty French oak.  The palate displays the typical sweet fruit from Leeuwin's low cropping vineyards of dried pear, toasty creamy custard tart and nutty nuances of almond and cashew, with lingering stone fruit and a fresh clean acid finish, This is a very exhilarating wine with great balance from a superior Chardonnay vintage with the potential to benefit from at least 5 years cellaring.

The palate is lively, bursting with fresh tropical fruit and balancing acidity all complimented by creamy, malolactic fermentation characters.  The long finish shows well handled, integrated oak with a touch of spice that finishes crisp and clean.

This wine has aromas of apricot kernel, peach and melon dominate, with hints of vanilla and honey.  Fine pencil and cedar French oak characters are beautifully supported by creamy butterscotch characters from malo-lactic fermentation.  Dominating the front palate are fruit flavours of peach, nectarine and melon.  The fruit is astutely balanced by the soft oak influence, hints of creaminess  and an excellent acid backbone, providing superb structure and length.

The wine has a light golden colour, with classic Chardonnay fruit aromas of peach, nectarine and nashi pear. The typical Mountadam Chardonnay characters of grilled nuts with clove and nutmeg spice supported by a citrus (grapefruit) core, contribute to the length of flavour of the wine. Given the warm conditions of this vintage these characters strongly reinforce the cool climate pedigree of the High Eden estate.

Think of a chardonnay generous enough to drink with mussels or clams but still light enough on the palate to enjoy by itself as an aperitif. The bouquet is aromatic, with straw and soft, buttery characters from the partial malo-lactic. While the palate is even and softly textured, the fine acidity maintains elegance and keeps the wine fresh in the mouth.

"From the Yabby Lake team, this Mornington Peninsula wine is delicate, taut and citrusy, with savoury complexities including a hint of dairy or milk powder from malolactic.  Understated, balanced and long.  Drink over two years.91/100"

This wine has vibrant aromas of melon and peach with caramel and smokey oak tones.  The palate is lively fruit with a refreshing and lingering finish.  The wine is full flavoured with appealing melon and grapefruit characters and hints of peach.  Barrel maturation has imparted a full, creamy mouthfeel and subtle oak character.

The 2006 Rosemount Show Reserve chardonnay has a complex nose with aromas of cashew, peach, pear and nectarine.  The palate has great persistence of flavour and good length.  The stone fruit aromas follow onto the palate gaining a creamy, almost smoky complexity from the oak maturation.  Traces of minerality add to the richness of fruit. Drink now to 2011.    

"This shows the hallmarks of its cool-climate origins. Sourced from the part of the Cumulus vineyard this is below 600 metres; above is classified as Orange, below is Central Ranges. Great texture and mouthfeel is the feature of this chardonnay - it's tight, lean and fine, even a touch grippy, certainly cool and refreshing. Restrained, white peach and nectarine flavours. A modern style at a budget price."

Peter Forrestal, Quaff, 01/01/2008