2019 Xanadu Stevens Road Chardonnay

Highly Rated
A gorgeous single vineyard Chardonnay made only from the best parcels of fruit in Stevens Road Vineyard. Incisive, bracing and chalky.

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The Stevens Road Chardonnay is well recognised for its high-class pedigree, and this release is absolutely no different.

Using fruit only from the best rows from the best blocks in Stevens Road Vineyard, it's production is limited - but for those that find themselves with a bottle, it offers a unique look at Chardonnay from Xanadu.

It holds all of the hallmark elegance of wines from this estate; a beautifully creamy mouthfeel, ripe flavours and traces of oyster shell and flintiness. It's built to go the distance, too, and will only get better with time in the cellar.

The bouquet of this elegant Chardonnay displays white fleshed stone fruit and poached pear characters with underlying hints of oyster shell and flint adding complexity. The palate is medium bodied offering white peach, pome fruits, citrus and nougat. Fine boned in structure with a pithy grapefruit backbone the wine retains succulence and has a subtle creamy ‘al dente’ textural mouthfeel derived from lees stirring. The fruit intensity and wonderful natural acidity persist through to a lingering, moreish finish.

97 Points - "We may intellectualise wine, but at its heart, it is an emotional pursuit. This 2019 Stevens Road provided a moment of unadulterated joy when I drank it on Christmas Day. The salty acid and taut citrus fruit cut through the conversation and the heat of the day, injecting pleasure and calm. This is svelte, with salty limes. Briney and delicious. Buy both the 2019 Reserve and Stevens Road chardonnays: cellar the Reserve, drink this." - Erin Larkin (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 Points - "This is a juicy, mouthwatering chardonnay if ever there was one. It’s quite piercing too, though pear-like fruit flavours keep it rollicking along. Green pineapple, grapefruit, pear and white peach characters match to chalk and cedar-spice. It’s very good now; it’ll be better again in a year or so." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 Points - "Light yellow-straw colour, with a restrained, youthful aroma with lemon and grapefuit to the fore, plus a subtle whiff of bacon-bone. The wine is refined and intense in the mouth, with tremendously penetrating fruit and acidity in harmony. Great tension and potential to develop with time in bottle. A gorgeous modern Australian chardonnay." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

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