2023 Brokenwood Indigo Vineyard Chardonnay

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2025 - Decanter World Wine Awards

Extraordinary layers of salted lime curd, peanut brittle and green apples brim under the nose and weave into the fresh, buttery texture. Pristine and focused with rippling herbs and flinty notes that glide towards the finish line. Award: Platinum - DWWA 2025

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Toni Paterson MW - Halliday Wine Companion

Planted in '99, the Indigo Vineyard, in the foothills of the Victorian Alps, has a reputation for fine chardonnay. This is a lovely example, lemon-scented and intense with refined pomelo and white peach flavours. The wine is defined by an acid line, which gives focus, freshness and length. Winemaking artefact has been seamlessly integrated to give the wine an extra dimension rather than a counter melody. Whole-bunch-pressed grapes with natural fermentation in French oak (100% new).

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Nicole Bilson - Winepilot

From the revered Indigo vineyard of Beechworth comes this beautifully balanced cool climate Chardonnay. There’s fabulous complexity, especially for such a young wine, with aromas of grapefruit zest, white nectarine, green mango and the earthy/citrus funk of cardamon pods. French oak adds a silky vanilla custard note dusted with nutmeg.  This wine effortlessly combines restrained elegance with compelling concentration and a finish that goes on and on (and on). Glorious now and will reward cellaring.

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Ken Gargett - Winepilot

It is a very long time since this region had just one superstar performer and a number of wannabees. Now Beechworth has long proved itself as one of the world’s most thrilling sources of great Chardonnay. This latest addition will simply add yet more shine to the lustre. Whole bunch pressing, wild ferment in French oak, all of it new. The oak format is a mix of 500 litre puncheons and 228 litre barriques with nine months maturation. A stunning pale lemon hue, the nose offers hints of nutmeg and spices from the influence of the oak. Sublimely handled, it is evident but intriguing, rather than intrusive. Spices, figs, white peaches, cashews and stone fruits and layered and dense but with energy. Very good length, over which the intensity is maintained for the full journey. A really good Chardonnay. Drink for six to eight years.

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James Suckling

Such complexity and focus, with phenolic tension and texture that draw a fine line through the middle of the palate and deliver subtle flavors of lemons and cooked apples, with hints of flint and toasted oak at the end.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2023 Indigo Vineyard Chardonnay is rocky and a little reductive, with salted nuts, white orchard fruit and lashings of caper brine. Shaved fennel, green apple skins and flinty complexity complete the picture, with saffron and curry leaf as well. The Indigo vineyard was planted in 1999 and is in Beechworth, at the feet of the Victorian Alps. 2023 was mild and late. 12.34% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

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Angus Hughson - Vinous

The crowd-pleasing 2023 Chardonnay Indigo Vineyard shows impressive generosity with layers of peach and nectarine well matched to prominent toasted French oak. Voluptuous flavors are kept lively by a bolt of zippy acidity, which delivers a slightly reserved, although lengthy, finale.