Sidewood Estate Chardonnay 2024 6 Pack

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Tony Love - Winepilot

Sidewood’s multi-tiered Chardonnay portfolio is an impressive collection in anyone’s language, and the 2024 vintage is clearly a beauty if the response for more elite cousins, the Mappinga and Owen variations, are any marker, winning trophies hand over fist in this year’s wine show circuit. The Estate, sourced from several of Sidewood’s vineyards across different sectors of the Hills region, is set to a generous aroma/flavour profile: lightly roasted peach, almond cake, orange cream biscuit, with a smartly measured citrus seam underpinning its palate lines, flavours reverbing in the textured finish. A people friendly Chardonnay with plenty of vinous attraction.

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

It's splendidly fruited and inviting on the nose, showing notes of peach, lemon peel, subtle vanilla, cashew, and oatmeal. The palate delivers fine flow and persistence, wonderfully framed by fleshy texture and bright acidity, finishing long and complex.

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Katrina Butler - Halliday Wine Companion

This surely must be one of the best value chardonnays of the region. The fruit is sourced from estate vineyards, and wild-yeast fermentation occurs in French oak, where it ages for nine months. Underripe white stone fruit, with apricot, grapefruit pith and lemon zest. It marches ahead on the palate, its threads of acidity carrying the weight of toasted almond, cashew, and Greek yoghurt. You'd be hard pressed to refuse a glass of this. Particularly at the price.