Fetherston Estate Chardonnay 2022

94 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

A stylish rendition, the elegantly expressed bouquet shows grapefruit, crunchy apple, rockmelon, nougat, and roasted hazelnut aromas, leading to a finely focused palate that's linear and persistent. Wonderfully structured by beautifully infused acidity, finishing splendidly long and engaging.

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Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

Whole-bunch pressed and matured in French oak (39% new). A bright yellow gold with green tinges. A nicely worked wine, revealing stone fruits, some grapefruit pith and a little struck match. Even better on the medium-bodied, chalky textured, balanced and gently saline palate.

93 POINTS

Ken Gargett - Winepilot

The team’s flagship Chardonnay is sourced from vineyards throughout the Yarra Valley, in particular the sub-regions of Gembrook, Healesville, Coldstream and Dixons Creek. After whole bench pressing, fermentation was with wild yeasts in French oak, 39% of which was new. The wine spent just under a year in oak during maturation. 400 dozen made. Gleaming yellow gold in colour, this is refined style, more so than some in this stable, and all the better for it. The nose gives us notes of stone fruits to the fore, with some attractive cashewy oak. We have peaches, a hint of pear, melons and honeycomb notes. The wine offers juicy acidity and decent length. A lingering style that will provide pleasure over the next six to eight years.

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Kasia Sobiesiak - The Wine Front

Crisp, lively, energetic start. Red apple and guava, peach and flint. Packed with zingy grapefruit flavour, plenty of gingery spice, almond nougat and cedar with a slightly warming finish. Clean-cut, inviting, engaging, reliable.