The Ashton Hills Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2023 is a beautifully complex and elegant wine that truly showcases the potential of Adelaide Hills terroir. On the nose, delicate aromas of ripe peach, citrus blossom, and toasted almonds dance alongside hints of vanilla and butter. Its pale straw colour shimmers in the glass, inviting you to take a sip. On the palate, this wine displays a perfect balance of acidity and creamy texture, with flavours of stone fruit, lemon curd, and a subtle minerality. The finish is long and refreshing, leaving a lingering impression of grapefruit and sea salt. Crafted by the esteemed Ashton Hills winery based in South Australia, this Chardonnay is a true representation of the quality and craftsmanship that the region is known for. Enjoy it now or let it age gracefully for a few years. Either way, it is a must-try for Chardonnay lovers.
Critic Reviews
95 POINTS
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The 2023 Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay leads with crushed nuts and yellow peach, brine and crushed shells, white nectarine and green apple. On the palate, the wine is creamy and totally pleasurable to drink: it feels good in the mouth. This flows in rivulets of flavor across the palate, with a skein of tarragon and shaved fennel through the finish. The fruit for this wine was sourced from three vineyards in the Piccadilly Valley: Bowhouse, Woods Hill and Virgara. It was handpicked, whole-bunch pressed to French oak puncheons and barriques and then matured on solids for nine months prior to bottling. This is a charming wine here, highly recommended. 12% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
94 POINTS
James Suckling
Very minerally and precise, with aromas of melon peel, flint and grapefruit rind. The palate has electric acidity from this cool vintage, with some generous texture on the mid-palate coming from battonage in barrel. Notes of lime zest, yellow apples and slate with a saline edge. A laser beam that will soften in time.
93 POINTS
Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion
From a suite of neighbouring vineyards, both growers and some (most) under the care of Ashton Hills. Crisp and bright, lively and fresh, a lighter iteration of the variety but not without mettle of savouriness, textural nuance and impressive length. Offers up scents of green apple, ginger and arrowroot biscuits, lime, woody spices and faint mushroom notes. The palate lines up similar descriptors and delivers light creaminess with some chalky follow-through and a pleasing pink grapefruit twist through the minerally, briny finish. Classy wine from a tricky year.
92 POINTS
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front
This is so fresh it almost feels daring. It tastes of pear, peach, custard cream and lemon curd, the latter biting through the finish as it pushes on for more. For the most part it’s not a lean style of chardonnay though that finish makes it feel that way in the end. It has flesh. It has cohesion. There’s a salty aspect here too which, I have to say, is a nice touch. Leave this for another year; it will be good thereafter.
92 POINTS
Angus Hughson - Vinous
The 2023 Chardonnay Piccadilly Valley is tight and focused, with melon and citrus pith aromas alongside touches of dried flowers wrapped in spicy oak. The palate offers grapefruit flavor, medium weight and a chalky, linear texture defined by mouthwatering acidity before a long, embryonic finish. There is much to like here, but it needs time to flesh out.
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Tasting Notes
The Ashton Hills Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2023 is a beautifully complex and elegant wine that truly showcases the potential of Adelaide Hills terroir. On the nose, delicate aromas of ripe peach, citrus blossom, and toasted almonds dance alongside hints of vanilla and butter. Its pale straw colour shimmers in the glass, inviting you to take a sip. On the palate, this wine displays a perfect balance of acidity and creamy texture, with flavours of stone fruit, lemon curd, and a subtle minerality. The finish is long and refreshing, leaving a lingering impression of grapefruit and sea salt. Crafted by the esteemed Ashton Hills winery based in South Australia, this Chardonnay is a true representation of the quality and craftsmanship that the region is known for. Enjoy it now or let it age gracefully for a few years. Either way, it is a must-try for Chardonnay lovers.
