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Collina Chardonnay
The 2024 Collina Chardonnay hails from a warm but excellent season in Tasmania (a big place to refer to with a blanket assessment of vintage, given its vast diversity). The Collina Chardonnay is a vineyard selection of fruit, and the fruit is sourced from the Rochello vineyard block, cropped at four tonnes per hectare. Aromatically, the wine leads with saffron and preserved citrus, pink grapefruit, yellow peach and crushed nuts. The fruit in the mouth is powerful, structured and elongated, and the phenolics make an impact through the finish, which I find very attractive indeed. It has a long tail of flavor by which to remember it—excellent. The warm year and powerful style are in lockstep here. Look out for this wine. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax.
