(2026) An exceptionally appealing style this, where bright orange and pink grapefruit aromas are tinged with sherbet and something lime-like, but with a peachiness beneath. Lees stirring has added weight and depth to the palate, but again that genre-defying style is there, with all the luscious and tropical richness you could hope for, but somehow so precise, tempered, mineral and taut that there is no sign of flamboyance, just delicious and balanced juiciness into a long, chiselled finish.
(2026) The Chardonnay is barrel fermented and goes through malolactic fermentation, but that doesn't mute the crisply-defined, seashell and cool, citrus acidity of this wine which comes from limestone soils. The gentle orchard fruit and suggestion of bread dough of the nose leads on to a taut palate, framed by that acid structure, but textural and intense. There is barely any oak apparent, just a chalky and lightly grippy character easing into a pure, bright and focused finish.
