Cullen Kevin John Chardonnay 2024

Ranked #1 of 19 2024 Chardonnays from Western Australia
A wine of tremendous power and concentration is evident from the initial engagement on the nose through to a deep and almost endless palate, as it drives forward with tremendous urgency. Notes of brioche and grain-like cereal with a slightly honeycomb factor, with other notes of minerals and slight savoriness. The palate is deeply concentrated with layers of flavour emerging. Captures much of the Kevin John DNA. 98PTS Ray Jordan

Always one of our greatest Chardonnays, not just a great Margaret River Chardonnay. Full biodynamics as always, Gin Gin clone from plantings made between 1976 and 1988, largely new oak. A straw/lemon hue, this is a very youthful Chardonnay, but it is elegance personified, with energy and focus and the signs of very early complexity. There is a beautifully creamy texture here with fine, citrussy acidity. The nose offers notes of peaches, florals, ginger, hints of nectarine, bergamot and lemon curd. This is poised and taut, a wine of precision. Long and lingering, there are notes of oatmeal on the palate. Leave it for a couple of years and it will be very special. 97PTS Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot

Bright medium-depth yellow colour; bread dough and fresh pastry aromas at first sniff, then lemon and subtle grapefruit emerge, a trace of fresh picked herbs, all of this translating onto the palate which is delicate and refined, marvellously fresh and vital, trim and yet intense, seemingly low-alcohol and light on its feet, suggesting earlier harvested grapes. A superb chardonnay. Drink 2025-2039. 96PTS Huon Hooke, Real Review