Paringa Estate 'The Paringa' Chardonnay 2024

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Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

While ’24 was not without its challenges on the peninsula, unequivocally, Paringa Estate has featured its best wines across the range. What a feat. The flagship chardonnay comes in as both flavoursome and refined. Flinty sulphides, a lemon/ginger infusion and fresh lemons, too. Stone fruit with roasted cashews and a savouriness throughout. The palate is restrained yet detailed with creamy lees and judicious oak. Everything is in its place, and this is a beauty of a drink.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

From nine rows on the home vineyard (Red Hill) that are nearly 40 years old. A bit of stuck match, honey and almond, white fruit and citrus, toasty cedar oak. It’s a little saline and savoury, toasty oak and barrel ferment plays a leading role, though there’s also a juiciness here and a cut of grapefruity acidity. The finish has some sour yoghourt creaminess and flinty grip, and it has good length too. A complex somewhat worked style that’ll be better in a year or two.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 The Paringa Single Vineyard Chardonnay is aromatically restrained and led by spice rather than overt fruit, which is no bad thing. In the mouth, the wine is concentrated, spicy, lean and mineral. There is wet steel, crushed chalk, white orchard fruits, preserved citrus and saline acidity. The phenolics woven through the finish are firm and, set against the backdrop of acidity, feel a little astringent at this early stage, although this will be mitigated by some further time in bottle. Be patient. Drink the 2025 Estate Chardonnay while you wait. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.