Holyman Chardonnay 2019

"I have said it before, and I will say it again: the 2019 harvest will go down as one of the best. A beautifully balanced growing season led to an easy harvest of pristine fruit.
As usual this fruit comes from our 0.75Ha block of 34-year-old Chardonnay. Pressed straight to 100% new-oak 500-litre puncheons for ferment and maturation." Lou and Joe Holyman

"Flowers, lime, white peach, a little stuck match, fennel tips, and attractive cinnamon and almond oak. Good energy present in the wine, with a lively crunch and flinty texture, almond meal and green olive, finish is long and tight, with a gentle grapefruit pith bitterness as it goes. Perhaps a little finer and tighter this vintage, but none the worse for that." 96pts - Gary Walsh - WineFront