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95
/ 100
Gary Walsh -
96
/ 100
Wine Pilot -
95
/ 100
James Halliday's Wine Companion -
95
/ 100
Mike Bennie
White
Classification
Chardonnay
Variety
2022
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
Victoria, Beechworth
Region
12.5%
Alcohol %
5-10 Years
Cellaring
Scores
95 / 100"Fresh apricot, green mango, grapefruit and lime, spice, a bit more struck match here, and it’s quite exotic in a way, maybe even some lemongrass, and salt block. It’s tight, a bit savoury and wild with a gently smoky and flinty edge, quite some tang, a slight green olive in brine thing, yet there’s quite the burst of acidity and flavour running through its long and zesty finish. Mouth-watering and intense. Very specific, and very bloody good."
- Gary Walsh
96 / 100
"“What a treat this wine is. First up, the making: “30% new oak. Pressed as crushed clusters. Partial solids wild ferment, then full mlf in a mix of puncheon and barrique. 30% new oak. Ten months in oak with monthly stirring, then five months in tank for fine lees tightening before bottling”. A good punch of resin, cedar and slightly rubbery reduction at the fore, before a delicious unfurling of flint, clotted cream, apple crumble, a saline note with air, and some nectarine flesh filling it out. Good balance to the palate, which is textural and fulsome. Green apple, pastry dough, toasty cedar, and nectarine sit within a pillowy texture cut by assertive, tight chalky phenolics and waves of cleansing acidity to a very long finish. There's a journey to this wine as it unfurls and shape shifts from first smell to final taste. These guys are on fire with Chardonnay. Complex, architectural, intense and ageworthy. A big yes from me.” Awarded 96 points by Tom Kline, for Wine Pilot."
- Wine Pilot
95 / 100
""The '22 sees a price rise and, frankly, it's easy to see why. Thorley breaks away from its usual youthful shyness and arrives fully expressive, complex and totally irresistible. Sits firmly, as usual, in the white peach and nectarine spectrum with added grapefruit pith, lemon and some gentle, biscuity oak. But it is the depth of fruit concentration and length that really impresses with beautifully integrated acidity.” Awarded 95 points by Jeni Port, for Halliday Wine Companion."
- James Halliday's Wine Companion
95 / 100
"Crikey this is fantastic. Flinty, minerally, succulent, quite light weight but so impressive in its carriage of flavour. Citrus, alpine herbs, dirty martini, tonic water, ginger, green apple. So energetic and fresh. Outstanding length. Brilliant, crystalline wine. 95, maybe 96 points."
- Mike Bennie
Tasting Notes
Tessa and Jeremy are playing a long-game with their Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown label.
It comes as no surprise that the buzz around this husband and wife team is palpable and the praise is high. Max Allen called them, “one of a remarkable number of impressive new wine labels to have cropped up in Beechworth over the last five years.” They are going to be at the forefront of Beechworth wine for many years to come.
Bright pale straw. Aromas of cashew cream, almond blossom and white peach, along with a smudge of flint and warm biscotti. The palate has some worked creaminess yet is restrained in weight, with a certain slatey mineral anchor and Meyer lemon acid carriage. With time in glass, some hints of herb garden show through.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity