2024 Garagiste Terre Maritime Chardonnay

97 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

Everything in a chardonnay that I fall for is on full display with Terre Maritime. It’s flinty, citrusy, with dabs of white stone fruit and ginger spice. Beautiful texture, glistening, a real purity within. It’s complex, detailed yet so refined, compelling all the way through to the last drop. Again, tops the charts as the finest chardonnay on the peninsula. The benchmark.

95 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

‘Having a barney’ is a funny old old expression. I think it comes from Barney Rubble, Cockney rhyming slang for trouble. There’s a good song by Birmingham band The Twang called ‘Barney Rubble’ – HERE. This is double trouble for John Humphrey who likes a new music reference combined with a high scoring Chardonnay. Lemon oil, flint and struck match, quite the salty sea dog here with sea spray and samphire, Japanese ginger, pink grapefruit and nectarine. A few too many things listed there, for sure, though, hey, it’s complex! It’s a tight wine, saline and savoury, a lemon curd richness in with grapefruit, aniseed is something I forgot to mention, and the finish has a bit of 9V battery on the tongue sort of energy. It has chalky bits and lots of personality. It tastes like a wine from somewhere, which is always a good thing in my book. Very nice.