2019 Vasse Felix Chardonnay

95 POINTS

Stuart Knox - The Real Review

Pale straw-yellow hue. Lemon curd, almond meal and bakery items. Quite tight and focused. Good acidity drives a saline minerality whilst citrus fruit and roast nuts sit alongside. Good length and a lovely crisp savoury note to this finish. A delicious chardonnay

95 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Halliday's Wine Companion

86/14% Gingin clone/Dijon clones 95, 96 and 77 from Boodjidup, Wilyabrup and Karridale. Full-solids style, 100% wild ferment, 9 months on lees in French oak barrique (39% new). Each year this wine presents an amalgam of creamy, chewy phenolics, ripe yet nervy fruit and exotic spice. The balance of these things depends on the year. In 2019, it's creamy and saline with white peach and fennel flower. Gorgeous stuff.

95 POINTS

Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

This classic wine is rich and concentrated yet bright and elegant. Citrus, melon rind, oyster shell, toasted brioche and nutty notes flow into a beautifully constructed palate. There's crackling acidity straight out of the gate and subtle, toasty oak to ground it. Slippery and slinky, with salinity and depth of flavor, this is a finessed, balanced wine. Drink now–2028.

94 POINTS

Jeremy Oliver

Vasse Felix continues to deliver more fruit weight in its Chardonnay. Penetrative aromas of grapefruit, yellow peach and lemon reveal notes of coriander, charcuterie meats and a whiff of marl. Its creamy core of generous, translucently clear citrus and stonefruit flavours moves with shape and balance towards a focused and vivacious finish of lingering mineral and briny nuances.

92 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

It’s still finding its feet but it will get there. This is a restrained or elegant version of the breed but it still has Margaret River written all over it. Stonefruit and juicy pear flavours rush through the palate in refreshing style and keep the flavour going convincingly through the finish. It’s largely unfettered and uncomplicated but the fruit has an impressive pure quality to it. Start drinking it from the start of next summer.

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

A mix of brittle and juicy texture, concentration yet freshness, nice saline character, a touch of resiny-cedary oak mixed in. Just ripe stone fruits, green apple crunch, light nougat notes, good length. Feels kinda fancy, though remains gluggable and relatively simple. Decent drinking.