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Xanadu Stevens Road Chardonnay 2023
DOZEN: $1,134.00 or $94.50 each
VINOUS MEDIA TOP 100 WINES OF THE WORLD 2025
The 2023 Chardonnay Stevens Road hits the spot with grapefruit and pear aromas counterbalancing a savoury dose of almond meal, crushed nuts, prominent oak and gunflint. The palate is powerful yet composed, with a superb balance of acidity and flavour driving the long and sustained finish. This is a brilliant result for the vintage. Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2023 (96) ANGUS HUGHSON, Vinous
From one of the most anticipated vintages in Margaret River's history, this 2023 Stevens Road Chardonnay leads with salted preserved lemon, lime flesh, green apple, white peach, cashews and brine. On the palate, the acidity is racy, which is a gentle understatement. It has pace and sting, and yet the voluminous fruit swarms around it and insulates us from its lash. The Xanadu Chardonnay style dictates that malolactic fermentation is assiduously eschewed, which explains the behavior of the acidity in the mouth. The barrels are stirred and the oak is carefully chosen, both of which create texture and contribute to the glacial longevity of this wine. The wine is austere in its youth but toasty and kaleidoscopic given time-around and beyond five years from vintage is a good rule of thumb. (96+) ERIN LARKIN, Wine Advocate
Excellent. Mineral-driven with aromas of sliced lemons, struck match, grapefruit, margarita, sea spray, oyster shell and a touch of sourdough bread. On the electric palate, pure acidity drives a mouthwatering sensation that lasts for minutes. Layers of white orchard fruit, saline-edged flint and underlying power have set this wine up for a lifetime (97) JAMES SUCKLING
Stevens Road shines this vintage and, while it will continue to garner more complexity, today it sets up an excellent foundation of flavour, acidity and drive. Lime and lemon with pink grapefruit, a layer of clotted cream and ginger, oak way in the background, long and pure with the fine acidity, albeit a little nervy and twitchy. Flavours linger; it's moreish with a stony, quartz-like precision. (97) JANE FAULKNER, James Halliday's Wine Companion