2017 Xanadu 'Stevens Road' Chardonnay - Museum
95 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
From the bottom 20 rows of the vineyard, Gingin clone, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French oak (25% new), stirred throughout 9 months maturation, no mlf. More elegant than many of Margaret River's best, lower alcohol and higher acidity one reason. Neither sibling relies on oak, this with a laser-bright singular flavour signature.
93 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2017 Stevens Road Chardonnay is salty and has notes of capers, grilled peach and that same lanolin/cheesecloth character that is present in the Black Label. It is pithy, fine and textural. This is very good, showing more evolution in the fruit than some of the older wines on the table—classically 2017.
95 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
From the bottom 20 rows of the vineyard, Gingin clone, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French oak (25% new), stirred throughout 9 months maturation, no mlf. More elegant than many of Margaret River's best, lower alcohol and higher acidity one reason. Neither sibling relies on oak, this with a laser-bright singular flavour signature.
93 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2017 Stevens Road Chardonnay is salty and has notes of capers, grilled peach and that same lanolin/cheesecloth character that is present in the Black Label. It is pithy, fine and textural. This is very good, showing more evolution in the fruit than some of the older wines on the table—classically 2017.
95 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
From the bottom 20 rows of the vineyard, Gingin clone, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French oak (25% new), stirred throughout 9 months maturation, no mlf. More elegant than many of Margaret River's best, lower alcohol and higher acidity one reason. Neither sibling relies on oak, this with a laser-bright singular flavour signature.
93 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2017 Stevens Road Chardonnay is salty and has notes of capers, grilled peach and that same lanolin/cheesecloth character that is present in the Black Label. It is pithy, fine and textural. This is very good, showing more evolution in the fruit than some of the older wines on the table—classically 2017.
