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Description
Here's another spellbinding Chardonnay from Tassie young gun Marco Lubiana!
Marco pulls this Chardonnay from two adjoining estate blocks in the Derwent Valley, both farmed biodynamically and both around the 25 year mark. The soils shift from gravelly mudstone into lighter alluvial material, and that mix tends to give him a nice balance of fruit power and acidity to work with each year.
After the cool, low yielding 2023 season, 2024 was a return to something more typical. Yields were better, flavour ripeness was easier to hit, and the winemaking followed a pretty relaxed path. A small tweak for 2024 was giving some of the fruit a light crush before pressing, aiming to pull a bit more flavour and texture from the skins. The rest stayed familiar wild ferment straight to French oak (a mix of barriques and larger formats, with about 12% new), full malo, and almost a year on lees before a short rest in tank.
The wine feels more open and approachable than the 2023 release smoother acidity, a little extra weight through the mid palate, and just enough phenolic grip to keep things tidy. A quick splash in a decanter helps it stretch its legs.
95 points
"Good extension of flavour, excellent flow, very elegant as a comment. Excellent."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
Customer Reviews
| Price Bracket | $51 to $100 |
| Type | White |
| Body | Full Bodied |
| Variety | Chardonnay |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Derwent Valley |
| Australian State | TAS |
| Feature |
Organic |
| Reviewed By |
James Suckling The Wine Front |
| Critic Score |
96 |
| Alcohol | 13% |
| Size | 750ml |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Closure | Cork |
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