Tasting Profile
March 2026
Bright aromatics lead the way, with notes of grapefruit, white peach, and delicate citrus blossom, complemented by subtle lees notes, nougat, and a touch of toasted oak. Hints of gentle reduction and flinty nuance add intrigue and depth.
The palate is plush and generous, revealing layered citrus and peach flavours framed by bright, precise acidity. Subtle phenolics and a textural mid-palate lend structure and complexity, while a creamy, lees-derived richness enhances the wine’s generosity. The finish is long, leaving a lasting impression of freshness, poise, and intensity. This wine is approachable now but will reward careful cellaring over the medium term.
13.0% alc
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Reviews
Wine Pilot, MAY 2026
Jeni Port
A blend of two top blocks – Faultline and Farrago – from the Estate vineyard. An elegant, restrained chardonnay, an exacting, exciting wine with emerging aromas of citrus, stone fruit, quince, almond cream, hazelnut with a Meyer lemon sweet scent coming through. To taste, note the textural quality developing that is so appealing together with a creamy leesy mouthfeel and flavour with background baked bread. This is a wine of class with an energy fuelled by bright acidity. Everything melds and builds in unison. In sync right now, with a big, blossoming future ahead.
95 points
Wine Pilot, MAY 2026
Ken Gargett
The Estate’s Faultline and Farrago blocks provided the fruit here, which was subsequently blended. The fruit underwent a gentle whole bunch pressing, directly into French oak barriques and puncheons, with 20% of them new, before fermentation, after which the wine spent eleven months maturing on lees, without bâttonage.
Very pale lemon in colour, this is a finely crafted and thoroughly entrancing Chardonnay. Notes of gentle citrus and stone fruit, peach pits, grapefruit and lemon curd on the nose. There is superbly integrated oak here. The wine walks the tightrope between good intensity and elegance. Serious length through to a bright and fresh finish with satiny tannins, there is such fine balance throughout. Ten years of pleasure ahead, fifteen if you’re patient.
96 points
JancisRobinson, MAY 2026
Tamlyn Currin
Vines planted in 1996 in Tuerong, north-facing, 100–120 m on clay loam. Sustainable viticulture and low-intervention winemaking.
Strikingly fragrant and aromatic for Chardonnay. Neroli, orange peel and gossamer smokiness. The delicate nectarine fruit brims through the spiralled structure of the wine. Satin texture spinning ribbons around the fruit. The most extraordinary – and addictively fresh – explosion of peppermint leaf on the finish. Mornington Peninsula etched in every drop.
17/20 points
The WineFront, MAY 2026
Campbell Mattinson
Excellent fruit intensity and length, and there’s no question that it’s complex. It tastes of peach, hay, cedar and lactose, the latter as whispers at most. There are flint notes too. The net effect of all this is that the quality is excellent, and worthy of a gold medal score.
94+ points
The Vintage
The Vineyard
The Kooyong vineyard is located on the Mornington Peninsula at Tuerong, on Miocene sedimentary soils. Our wines are made from domain grown, handpicked grapes and aim to manifest terroir: the integration of our geology and soils with the macroclimate of our region, the mesoclimates of the various sites within our vineyard and the weather of the annual grape growing season. Our cultural operations in the vineyard and practices in the winery endeavour to articulate these unique characteristics diligently, respectfully and without artifice.