97 points - "The Downer family has been farming around Oakbank since 1939, and the decision to plant vines 60 years later may have been the best move they ever made. This is chardonnay out on the town and dressed to kill. Sleek, sophisticated and sexy. There’s fragrant white peaches and creamed wild honey, a wisp of flinty funk and an electrifying acid line. Give me this ‘Rocket’ over Bezos or Musk any day." - Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian Magazine)

96 points - "Powerful aromas of lemon confit, minerals, oyster shells, chalk and candied lime zest. The plate is medium-bodied with underlying power framed by focused acidity, giving notes of fresh pineapple, green apple skin and grapefruit pith. Exceptionally well balanced and tightly constructed. Drink or hold. Screw cap." - Ned Goodwin MW (jamessuckling.com)

95 points - "An important wine for the region and site, estate grown in Lenswood. 100% mlf and 50% new oak in both French and Hungarian small and large format oak. Texturally brilliant with a chalky, crushed aspirin-like texture, it melds and relents under the brightness of fruit, leaving only a mineral sherbet tingle behind. Lemon and grapefruit, white stone fruits, raw cashew and nougat, too. There is a softness here that begs for pause, so take some time to appreciate its multifaceted nuance and complexity." - Katrina Butler (Halliday Wine Companion)

94 points - "Made on Earth by Humans, as the back label says, and don’t you forget it. It’s tightly wound and compact. A super svelte and textural experience with big energy and chewy, pulverised rock minerality and tension. Firm in a way, and pleasingly so, an inward concentration and drive of succulence and refreshing nature. Green apple galore on the just ripe spectrum, some pink grapefruit, lime, flint and talc too. It soars and begins to spread a little with time too. It’s a wine of serious feel, huge washes of refreshment and glorious fruit purity. Perhaps just a little less multidimensional as its recent past, but right up there and epic as such." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Our 7th release, The 2023 Rocket Chardonnay from the elevated terroir of Lenswood, navigating a cool and measured vintage. Subtle white stone fruit notes orbit alongside hints of candle wax, grilled hazelnuts, and a spark of flint, creating an intriguing, layered nose. On the palate, refreshing citrus cuts through with laser-like precision, steering towards melon and crystalline quince. Full malolactic fermentation and judicious oak integration provide gravity and texture, with a fine pithy edge grounding the wine's structure. This cosmic Chardonnay is poised for lift-off, drinking beautifully in its youth, but destined to evolve and expand with time in the bottle.