Paringa Estate "Estate" Chardonnay 2024

95 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

No shortage of flavour, yet quite a pared-back style, with pleasing freshness and vibrancy. Plenty of white peach and lemon, a creamy/grilled-nuts flavour to the lees, a touch flinty and cedary, the spicy oak neatly tucked in. It’s luscious and delicious.

94 POINTS

Jeni Port - Winepilot

A free wheeling, generous Chardonnay in the Paringa style, but underneath the sunny exterior there is an underlying structural power. Brings the scent of the beach with saline, sea spray notes and ripe peach, pear, nectarine and citrus – very summery and bright. A balanced palate, delightfully citrus and upfront in stone fruits with background lightly spiced, vanillin oak, quince and a quince skin savouriness awaits. Brisk acidity nicely controls the obvious richness and delivers one smart, enticing wine.

94 POINTS

Jeni Port - Winepilot

A free wheeling, generous Chardonnay in the Paringa style, but underneath the sunny exterior there is an underlying structural power. Brings the scent of the beach with saline, sea spray notes and ripe peach, pear, nectarine and citrus – very summery and bright. A balanced palate, delightfully citrus and upfront in stone fruits with background lightly spiced, vanillin oak, quince and a quince skin savouriness awaits. Brisk acidity nicely controls the obvious richness and delivers one smart, enticing wine.

94 POINTS

Decanter

Bright citrus, apple and white nectarine. Rocky, savoury energy, generously pure fruit. Leesy richness; vibrant, clean palate. Lingering freshness. Judges: Alex Hunt MW, Roger Jones, Beth Pearce MW

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Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

Reductive struck match and nougat notes add dimension to the waxy lemon, orange peel and subtle spiced tropical fruit characters. It's mouth-filling with lovely freshness, toasty edges and a core of fleshy fruit to a long finish.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

This will live and mature – well – for yonks. It’s a direct, linear, complex chardonnay with length to burn. It tastes of grapefruit and grilled peach, flint and steel, cedar and fresh, juicy pears, and while it sits slightly on the lean side at this early stage, it will blossom given time.

93 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 Estate Chardonnay is concentrated and intense, full of salted nuts, flowers and saline acidity. There is plenty of wine here—i.e., it is full of flavor and long through the finish—and yet it manages restraint as well. This is a classy wine, very attractive. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.