The Lane Estate Chardonnay 2024 6 Pack

95 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Wonderfully composed and expressed, the wine shows ripe peach, lemon curd, vanilla, cedar, and savoury pastry aromas on the nose. It’s concentrated on the palate, delivering excellent depth and persistence, beautifully framed by silky texture and bright acidity, finishing splendidly long and satisfying.

95 POINTS

Jeni Port - Winepilot

In a word: refined. Sometimes, it only takes one word to describe a wine such as this, a wine that reveals its cool climate nature beautifully citrus bright and delivers it across impressive filigree-fine acidity.  Aromas of citrus, nectarine, white peach, lime zest with a touch of hazelnut. The palate is taut and compact, really elegant, layered and, yes, refined. The oak component, 49% new French oak, comes in nicely integrated, contributing to the wine’s texture and length, which is impressive. Equally so, the depth of white stone fruits, citrus, grilled nuts and almond nougat complexity still on the rise.

93 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

It’s elegantly fragrant on the nose, showcasing notes of apricot, rockmelon, lemon peel, and nougat, followed by a beautifully rounded palate that offers ripe fruit flavours with delicate complexity, leading to a lengthy, enticing finish.

93 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

This is effortless and lovely stuff. It feels very much about pure, deep fruit character with gentle, nuanced woody spice and a little slip of vanilla cream and arrowroot biscuit lending complexity. While packed with flavour, the wine glides on cool rails of lemony acidity and finishes crystalline and light. It's got heaps of charm, strong varietal character and has a good sense of 'Adelaide Hills' to boot.

92 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

A pretty chardonnay with some distinct oak overlay, creamy vanilla and toasty, brown spice. A little resinous, but not enough to dampen the green apple, brown lime, nectarine and coconut apricot characters going on in perfume and palate. A bit edgy, with acidity prickly through a juicier mainframe of fruit and spice characters. A little breathy in the finish, too. That being said, time should resolve much of this and mellow out in a beautiful golden wine. Stay the course.

92 POINTS

Jeni Port - Winepilot

A blend of Hahndorf and Lobethal fruit that nicely captures the citrus and stone fruit qualities we associate with Adelaide Hills Chardonnay. It’s fruit bright and juicy, and I can confidently say it keeps well and improves well into the second day – always a good sign. Aromas embrace the citrus, nectarine, white peach, pear with a lightness of spice and a touch of fennel seed. The palate is finely textured, crisp, elegant. Lip smacking fresh finish.

Decanter

Toasty notes and tinned fruit lead. Ripe stone fruit and leesy creaminess shape a warm, rounded palate. Simple, expressive and fruit-driven. Judges: Alex Hunt MW, Roger Jones, Beth Pearce MW