Fermoy Estate, Reserve Chardonnay, Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia 2019

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Best in Show

Best in Show
Decanter World Wine Awards

Country: Australia
Region: Western Australia
Sub-region: Margaret River
Grape(s): Chardonnay 100%
Producer: Fermoy Estate
Alc: 13%
Distributor in China: https://www.fermoy.com.au/collections/wine/products/2017-reserve-chardonnay

Fermoy Estate, Reserve Chardonnay, Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia 2019 Fermoy Estate, Reserve Chardonnay, Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia 2019

The role of Margaret River in helping define the expressive possibilities of Australian Chardonnay is a major one, and this profoundly maritime region with its amenable gravel and loam soils continues to make much of the pace in the Southern Hemisphere as a whole. This 2019 Reserve Chardonnay has scents of bergamot and lemon zest underwritten by a faint, subtle coffee cream. It is spotlessly clean, pure and fine-spun on the palate, with ample citrus and samphire freshness and a pungent finish: very much a Chardonnay for fish and seafood. Aesthetically speaking, too, it has much more in common with our other four Best In Show Chardonnay wines than you might imagine from a zone with the same heat summation figures as Napa: this is emphatically cool-climate in style.

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