Wine Score
Grape Variety
Chardonnay
Unique and very popular varietal. Often very aromatic and significant, but can be also very fresh and clean. Because of these reasons it it probably the most popular white varietal in the world. Can be recognized as full bodied and mouth filling wine which was aged in oak barrels. With very typical aroma of butter, toast and citruses. The second expression, with fermenting in stainless steel tanks, is very clean, with higher acidity and with beautiful aroma of limes, green apples and peaches.
Chardonnay was dominantly a product of Burgundy region in France. Where it´s home. But thanks to success at legendary blind tasting in Paris in 1976, called Judgement in Paris, California Chardonnays has waved the flag and stunning Chateau Montelena 1973 won. After that tasting, California Chardonnays became really popular and on that wave are till today.
New South Wales Wine
The New South Wales wine appellation is composed of 16 different regions and covers roughly 810,000 square kilometers (312,000 sq mi). This area correlates with the eponymous state, one of six that make up the Federal Commonwealth of Australia.
Despite being one of the smaller Australian states geographically, New South Wales has been the most populous since the first European settlements of the 18th Century. Greater Sydney is home for over 60 percent of the state’s inhabitants.
Viticulture here has played an important part in antipodean wine history and its vineyard area is rapidly developing. The state is home to the countries oldest winery, Wyndham Estate in the Hunter Valley (now marketed as George Wyndham). Its best known wineries are concentrated in that region.
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