Hoddles Creek Estate Chardonnay 2013

Hoddles Creek Estate Chardonnay 2013James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2014 Led by winemaking guru Franco D'Anna, the team at Hoddles Creek produce wonderful chardonnay year in and year out that seriously overdeliver at the price point. The wines are made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley. "Back up the truck here's yet another excellent chardonnay from Upper Yarra Valley producer Hoddles Creek. It smells of stonefruit and citrus and has a flinty, gunsmoke

it unfurls across every dimension – wider

this is a statement of the Polish Hill River sub-region's savoury power and precision

Bottled by gravity

To look after feline lovers as well as the canine kind

A non-vintage Champagne

with an echo of tomato-bush

The mid-palate combines green apple and pear

The vines are planted on their own roots to retain purity of style

It has a refreshing

roasted cashew and that distinctive grapefruit

it purrs them into a microphone

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