2025 Mystery Padthaway Chardonnay Deal No. 6613

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Rich yet refined and alluring, the bouquet shows golden peach, rockmelon, brioche, and stylish oak aromas, followed by a concentrated palate exhibiting outstanding weight and depth. Wonderfully complemented by a creamy texture and fine acidity, making it harmonious and flowing to a long, seamless finish.

93 POINTS

Ken Gargett - Winepilot

Under Diam, this is a most impressive Chardonnay from the Padthaway region. This wine represents the best fruit the team can source from that district. Still very youthful, obviously, the colour is a pale straw. The nose offers appealing notes of stone fruits, nectarines, crushed almonds, river pebbles, hints of dried herbs and oatmeal. A touch of honeycomb on the finish and even hints of crisp pears. A lovely supple texture which should tend to creaminess given time, the wine maintains its intensity on a long and lingering finish. Well balanced, the wine should drink beautifully over the next five to eight years.

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Shanteh Wale - Halliday Wine Companion

40% of juice fermented in oak with partial mlf; the wine was matured on fine yeast lees for eight months. The Reserve centres around ripe fruit for its concentration and presence. Peach trifle, mango lassi and lemon curd. The new oak support is creamy and chai spiced, rather than toasty. The palate follows suit with a real custard middle palate, the richness of yolk and fleshy peach. A very edible wine and one for those that enjoy the curves and breadth of ripe chardonnay fruit.