Bannockburn Chardonnay (1500ml) 2025

96 POINTS

Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

Fermented and matured in 25% new French hogsheads and puncheons, 70% mlf. A complex mélange of stone fruit, quince, apple blossom, acacia and marine notes. The palate is equally complex and totally mouth-filling while remaining light on its feet. Finishes silky-textured and very long. A class act that will provide a lot of enjoyment over the next six to eight years.

96 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

There are yellow stone fruits characters here, and an array of sweet spice notes, but it’s the flesh, the rush and the juice of grapefruit and ripe pear flavours that both dominate and seduce. This wine really does make you dive quickly in for more. There’s a subtle smokiness, some tonic and mineral-like notes, and an especially noticeable (extra) linger to the finish. This is one of those wines where the acidity itself feels flushed with flavour. The aftertaste then adds some pebble-stone characters, just because it can. What a wine.

95 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2025 Chardonnay is nutty, complex, rich and tightly coiled, with saline acidity and concentrated, complex characters that persist through the palate as well. I love it. There are notes of sweet tobacco, fennel, white pepper, new leather and honeydew melon. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.