Giant Steps Chardonnay 2023 Yarra Valley – 6 Bottles

WINERY INFORMATION This wine was a season of mixed fortune. With a minuscule crop set following flowering. The stage was set for a concentrated, but contracted intake. Conditions through December and January were cool to warm, sunny, dry and with little wind, resulting in excellent tannins, good acid and full flavour ripeness at our preferred (lower) sugar levels TASTING NOTES This is rich, fine, seamless, quartz-like. It’s complex in an integrated way; no bells, whistles or alarms but plenty going on regardless. Grapefruit and white peach spent matches buried into the fruit, a smoky mineralogy. It turns the power on but is long and gorgeous – and it’ll be better again in 12-24 months.