2022 Palliser Estate Chardonnay Australia

95 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is gorgeously styled and expressed on the nose with ripe stone fruit, lemon peel, nougat and hazelnut aromas with a hint of oatmeal nuance. The concentrated palate displays terrific fruit power with splendid complexity, leading to a persistent, delectable finish. Wonderfully composed with richly textured mouthfeel, making it hugely appealing.

93 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

This does a lot. It opens with this pleasing, minerally flint character and drives on with tightly wound stone fruits, green apple, ginger and honeycomb notes with lots of scents and flavours in tow. Crisp in texture, dry finish, a light juiciness too. It has lots on, and delivers a quietly complex, compelling chardonnay expression.

93 POINTS

2024 - Decanter World Wine Awards

Flinty and floral charm to the entry with honied fruit and vanilla developing. Lees and oak build mouthfeel and support the sharp mineral line. Award: Silver - DWWA 2024

92 POINTS

James Suckling

Aromas of lemons, yellow cherries and apple blossom followed by cheese rind and a touch of flinty minerality. Medium-bodied. Delightful acidity. Tangy finish. Subtle savory layers with persistent length.

Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous

Despite the rain pressures, the 2022 Chardonnay is clean, pure and zesty. It is a sweetly fruited style with a vanilla note and savory, almond croissant character suggestive of lees. Light in body, the 20% new oak adds some nutty characters and structure, but it's well integrated with the orchard fruit. This is neither a wine with massive substance nor a long-term prospect, but it has harmony, interest and immediate enjoyability.

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The fruit for this 2022 Chardonnay hails from two vineyards, Om Santi and Palliser, and three clones, 15, 95 and 548. Grapes were handpicked and whole-bunch pressed directly to barrel without settling, no sulfur additions. The ferments are kick started with pied de cuve that the winery makes in the vineyard about two weeks prior to harvest. The wines remain unsulfured until just prior to bottling, after 10 months in barrel. On the nose, the wine is rich and buttery, with crushed nuts, clotted cream, curry leaf, Jersey caramels and yellow peach. In the mouth, the wine is creamy and plush—totally pillowy and plump. There are hints of custard powder through the finish. The impact of malolactic fermentation is pronounced here, but for those who love that creamy style, this is a triumph. Nice acid through the finish keeps it tight. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.