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Leeuwin Art Series Chardonnay 2022
DOZEN: $2,052.00 or $171.00 each
When arguments rage, you can guarantee when the subject is Australia's greatest chardonnays that this wine will always be in the mix. It's another exceptional wine from a vintage that really worked well. As always, 100% of the juice was barrel fermented in new French barriques, with regular stirring to introduce complexity and texture. It's a powerful statement of chardonnay as it always is, with aromas of quince and lime, cut pear, with a little vanilla pod and brioche. So it's layered and complex. The palate is a powerhouse with awesome concentration and intensity, but then there's a minerally lime juice edge that leaves the mouth with a lip-smacking acidity. (98) RAY JORDAN
If you were sitting quietly in a corner, contemplating the vicissitudes of life, and a glass of this exceptional chardonnay came your way, well, all would be very well indeed. And you'd perk up. It's a wine that tends to be scintillating in youth, driven by all manner of citrus flavours - lemon, pink grapefruit with a dash of lime but also a mille-feuille of leesy lusciousness, oak spices and a moreish savouriness. It seems powerful and explosive with its acidity, drive and energy yet manages to remain classy and complex. (97) JANE FAULKNER
There are toasted nuts, yellow fruits, exotic spices and an open fan of acidity/phenolics through the finish. "It's still a baby, but there is no question of what lies within. Tuberose, lemon leaf, green spice, preserved lemon, toasty oak, cracker and perfumed white peach. On the palate, flavour is concentrated and intense, and combined with the firm structure of this wine, powerful enough to hold up to the oak. There's vibrant, lacy acidity, ripe and powerful Gingin fruit, yet in no way ending towards fleshy. It's voluminous and complex, but laster-beam precision keeps things taut. The palate blooms with opulent florals, peach, nectarine skin, lemon blossom, crushed roast cashew, orange blossom and crushed citrus leaf. A silvery salinity on the finish tickles. A wine of polish, precision and immense power, yet all in balance. This is one for the distance. (97) CASSANDRA CHARLICK, Decanter