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96
/ 100
Erin Larkin -
95
/ 100
Campbell Mattinson
White
Classification
Chardonnay
Variety
2022
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
Victoria, Geelong
Region
13.0%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
96 / 100"The 2023 SRH Chardonnay is textural and taut; it is bound in phenolics at this point, but clearly superb. The length of flavor shows this. The complexity shows this. It's a hugely impressive wine that speaks of white peach, green apples, green olive brine, white strawberries and white pepper. It's salty and a little chewy. This will be a seriously great wine—give it time. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Erin Larkin, robertparker.com."
- Erin Larkin
95 / 100
"95+ points. The intensity of flavour here is significant. This is a rocket of a wine. Grapefruit, lime, lemon curd, sweet peach, tinned pear and pineapple characters come wrapped in smoky-sweet cedarwood. Acidity, barley-and-lemon-drenched, is prominent too, in keeping with the power of the fruit. It needs time for certain, but this is quite a wine."
- Campbell Mattinson
Tasting Notes
Named for Bannockburn founder Stuart Reginald Hooper, our SRH Chardonnay is from a distinctive selection of our oldest Chardonnay vines at Olive Tree Hill Vineyard.
The 2023 SRH Chardonnay offers vibrant and rich aromas of stone fruit, various citrus, cream filled pastry and buttered popcorn with hints of flint and well integrated oak flavours. The flavours are intense but very pure and balanced, with a an array of fruit aromas, yeasty dough characters, chalk, oak spice and smoke. This is an outstanding release and without a doubt, one of the best SRH to date.
Followers of Bannockburn will know that S.R.H. comes off the oldest, lowest-yielding Chardonnay vines in the Olive Tree Hill vineyard and is named in recognition of Bannockburn’s founder, Stuart Reginald Hooper. These twelve rows of 45-year-old vines have roots well embedded in the ancient marine sediments that form the bedrock in this area. They seem to suck the minerality right out of their subsoil and deliver a spine-tingling wash of salinity to support the intense richness of flavour and texture for which this benchmark is well known.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity