2023 L.A.S. Vino Wildberry Springs Chardonnay

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Voluptuous, powerful yet seamless Chardonnay from one of the rising stars of WA wine.
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Nic Peterkin's star is on the rise. He forms part of the New Guard of WA wine, blazing a new trail for the West.

With deep family roots in Margaret River wine and a lifetime spent surrounded by some of the finest examples of Margaret River Chardonnay, Nic has a keen eye for quality fruit and has his own take on style for the Great White Grape of Margaret River.

Here, Nic takes fruit from a 25 year old vineyard in the heart of Wilyabrup, the epicentre of top-flight Chardonnay for this region. He then lets it ferment in clay amphoras in a range of sizes, giving complexity and depth to the wine. It's a pure expression of Margaret River Chardonnay, stone fruity, citrus, with a hint of flintiness and beautiful texture.

96 points
"Generous smoky/flinty reduction overlying ripe grapefruit aromas—a classic Gin Gin clone wine. Superb fruit: very regional and very Gin Gin. Powerful flavour teamed with refinement and penetrating length. A real finesse chardonnay and quite superb."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

95 points
"A beauty to sniff on. Flavours sway between limey margaritas, tonic, sweet lemon and light gingery spice. It’s got this pleasing saline, talc and briny chew to it too. Really good drinking here."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
95 points
"Smells of a lime daiquiri – salty, tangy yet waxy, textural and flavoursome. Riper in style, in terms of fruit weight, with white nectarine/peach to the fore and grapefruit, too.... It lingers, it’s complex, detailed and as compelling as it is delicious."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)
95 points
"The wine is opulently styled and quite ripe, but it works... There is something quite grown-up/sophisticated about the wines from this vintage, and it shows in this wine."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points - "Generous smoky/flinty reduction overlying ripe grapefruit aromas—a classic Gin Gin clone wine. Superb fruit: very regional and very Gin Gin. Powerful flavour teamed with refinement and penetrating length. A real finesse chardonnay and quite superb." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

95 points - "A very lively chardonnay, set to medium weight, a strong sense of minerality running through the wine. Scents of ozone, sea spray, margaritas with salt rims, tonic water and bay leaf. A beauty to sniff on. Flavours sway between limey margaritas, tonic, sweet lemon and light gingery spice. It’s got this pleasing saline, talc and briny chew to it too. Really good drinking here." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Smells of a lime daiquiri – salty, tangy yet waxy, textural and flavoursome. Riper in style, in terms of fruit weight, with white nectarine/peach to the fore and grapefruit, too. Some funky sulphides, all smoky and flinty, creamy, light lees and a savouriness throughout yet there’s a slip of sweetness from the oak with warm spices, too. It lingers, it’s complex, detailed and as compelling as it is delicious." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "The 2023 Wildberry Springs Chardonnay is ripe and full flavored, with yellow peach, lemon verbena, preserved citrus rind and salted cashews. The palate is threaded together with saline acidity and exotic dry spices—saffron, fennel seeds and cheesecloth/lanolin. The wine is opulently styled and quite ripe, but it works. Usually, these wines are lower in alcohol, but in the context of this dry, mild season, the ripeness sits well within the wine. There is something quite grown-up/sophisticated about the wines from this vintage, and it shows in this wine." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

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    Fantastic wine LAS

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Sitting in the heart of Willyabrup, growing on rich gravelly loam soils, this 25 year old vineyard is immaculate, with no vines out of place, it's almost perfect. It took a few years of begging to be able to pick fruit from this vineyard.

Hand picked first thing in the morning, chilled overnight, whole bunch pressed and fermented/ matured in 50% amphora of different shapes and sizes. We hope that the different sized vessels of different porosity provide differing fermentation kinetics and oxygen uptake into the wine. Providing complexity and depth in the same way different oak barrels are used. The remaining 50% is fermented and aged in oak barrels to provide familiarity and structure. A partial natural malolactic fermentation occured during its time in vessel softening the edges of the wine and providing length and depth.

Purity is the word that I think everytime I try this wine. Purity and elegance. Pure flavours of Willyabrup chardonnay, peach lemon, lime, green apple, a touch of cream and a hint of flint

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Full Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
The Real Review
Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 96
95
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure DIAM Cork

L.A.S. Vino

Nic Peterkin’s blood runs red with Margaret River wine.

The son of Pierro founder, Dr Mike Peterkin and Shelly Cullen, of you guessed it, Cullen wines fame, the force is strong with this one. His wines are out there, challenging the status quo of one of the country’s most respected wine-producing regions. This is the “New Guard” of Margaret River, and the wines are coming out all guns blazing.

Nic is playing with some varieties off the beaten path of classic Margaret River. The Chardonnays and Chenin Blancs are stellar, as is the Cabernet but the likes of Touriga Nacional and Sousao all find a home amongst his eye-catching range.

There's some serious substance to his project, being named as the 2016 Gourmet Traveller Young Winemaker of the Year for his eclectic and tantalising releases and recently named the Dark Horse of the Year at the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Awards. Nic is one of the most creative and boundary-pushing winemakers in the country, without question. His Margaret River range is truly unlike anything else you will find in Australia.

Winemaker Nic Peterkin horsing around L.A.S. Vino

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