Castagna Grower's Selection Chardonnay 2022

A classic Beechworth Chardonnay, straw-gold with a green tinge: aromas of hazelnut, yellow peach, and nuances of matchstick mingled with spicy-oak notes of ginger and orange zest; the attack is full of rich, peach and nectarine fruit flavours. “Pleasing, fresh scents of lemon-lime, faint oyster shell, sense of ‘minerals’, talc and green apple. Palate is lightly crunchy, just the faintest bit toasty, some waxiness to texture, finishes with a smudge of halva-like sweet nuttiness and a little stickiness. Moreish kind of savoury-styled wine.”  Mike Bennie, The Wine Front