2024 Worlds Apart Loud Places Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay

94 pts
A refined, elegant Chardonnay from a cool, high-altitude site in the Piccadilly Valley.

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Description

Louis Schofield waited years to find the right fruit to make the Chardonnay he had always dreamed of, and in 2024, the stars aligned in the heart of the Piccadilly Valley.

Sourced from a cold, elevated vineyard grown by the Virgara family, this wine is a masterclass in the "refined elegance" that the Adelaide Hills does better than almost anywhere else. The cool, long growing season allowed the fruit (clones 76 and 96) to ripen slowly, retaining incredible natural acidity while building deep flavour.

The result is a Chardonnay of restraint and precision, but not at the expense of pleasure. It is elegant yet full-flavoured, offering a complex array of citrus and stone fruit notes with a tight mineral backbone. This is a wine born from patience and a specific vision, and the team is rightfully proud of it.

94 points
"Neatly serried, expressive but refined. It’s flavourful, detailed and quite delicious, while also having considerable verve and ageing potential."
-  Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

Mike Bennie

Mike Bennie

The Wine Front 93 Points

Loud places, quiet wine. Louis Schofield is building the dream winery and this project builds gravitas each year.

Slate, flint, sandalwood, green apple – that’s the emotional response to characters of the wine. It’s a trim, well, slate-textured wine with mouthwatering, tart apple around that, the licks and suggestions of sweet woody spice, some lime dashed in through the finish. Delicious drinking, cool and fine. Perhaps missing some x-factor and added dimensional elements, but as a drink now, have fun, good times chardonnay, we good.

 Marcus Ellis

Marcus Ellis

Halliday Wine Companion 94 Points

Off 24-year-old vines from the Chapel Valley vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley. This was direct pressed to two French puncheons, one being new. The fruit was picked a tad riper (by finished alcohol) than the '23, but still on the cooler side, retaining a line of precision. The oak is a classy embellishment. White nectarine, yellow grapefruit, lemon pith, lime, roasted almond, ginger and crème brûlée all neatly serried, expressive but refined. It’s flavourful, detailed and quite delicious, while also having considerable verve and ageing potential.

A cool and long season and a cold, elevated vineyard has made for a chardonnay of refined elegance, freshness and restraint. We waited until we could get our hands on exceptional quality fruit to make the chardonnay we've always dreamed of. The vineyard is in the heart of the Piccadilly Valley, grown by the Virgara family. Clones are 76 and 96. This is an elegant but full flavoured and complex chardonnay that we are very proud of.

Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type White
Body Full Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country Australia
Region Adelaide Hills
Australian State SA
Feature Natural/Lo-Fi
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Front
Critic Score 94
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Screw Cap

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart is the small adventurous label of winemaker Louis Schofield and chef Hannah Jeffery.

Louis was the protege and assistant winemaker of the late Taras Ochota. From the Ochota Barrels wine studio Louis sharpened his winemaking skills and attacks the World Apart wines with a similar low-intervention but high attention to detail philosophy.

The grapes come from small local growers who farm with a sustainable ideology. These are small-batch, high-energy wines that pop out of the glass with loads of personality.

Winemaker Louis Schofield Worlds Apart

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