Yarra Valley Chardonnay

Smells like, pear and guava. Lemon custard and passion fruit. Cinnamon pastry. On the tongue, lime and passion fruit. Good acidity. Will age well. Classy.

Lemon, lime, grapefruit with a mealy note. More full bodied and lush than I was expecting. Good to see it’s not a sulphidic, thin and restrained style which we see all too often these days. Pretty good - I enjoyed this from one of the up and coming young winemakers in the Yarra. Had my last bottle 24 weeks later on 1st November with different notes. This was quite lean with grapefruit notes. Not a typical Yarra Valley Chardonnay in my experience. Riper fruit would have achieved that. 90 points.

Served blind it would be touch and go for old world. Pretty sharp wine. Grapefruit, white stone fruit, acacia flowers, button mushrooms, oatmeal with a funky aniseed thing along with some minerlaity. Palate has this rippling, quartz like acidity that helps drive home a lengthy pure finish.

I like many of Luke's wines and was excited to try this but it's just so bloody tight! I pray this will broaden out as it ages. I gave it a few hours in a decanter and it still wasn't giving much, the nose isn't in any way offensive but feels a little like a not particularly great 1er Cru Chablis that's a bit more matchstick than seashell mineral, touch of Asian pear and bruised red apple fruit, there's a salinity that shows (but that's after more than 24 hours as I put it back in the bottle and tried it the following night. It was still sharp as a button on the palate but very, slight, slender and with well, just too precise, no generosity of fruit, just a 'let's lick a marble kitchen counter' supper sappy finish, taught, over precise. No doubt this will be long lived, many may even like the style but it's a bit too Bonney for me.

2012: fragrant. Lightly toasted, leesy, with a mineral note. White peach, sweet Apple. Good character and elegance.

Love the texture vs zing game here. Beautifully balanced fruit, leesy texture, acid and oak. Nice one. 2013 Vintage.

Wow! Great juice and only 12.5 Alcohol .. Great expression for Yarra Valley Chard . .. CB 92+

Beautiful

Perfect balance of mineral, malo, creamy peach yogurt

2018. New vintner for us. Full bodied, but with the acidity to pair great with the citrus and herb forward vegetable and seafood centric small plates. We really enjoyed it as it warmed slightly and opened up through our progression.