The 2023 vintage is widely reported to have been the most difficult and challenging in at least the past 20 years. A third La Niña event produced the wettest year since 2011 and the ninth wettest on record since 1900 for Australia in 2022, with rainfall totals 26 per cent above the 1961–1990 average. It was also Australia’s coolest
year since 2012, although average temperatures were 0.5 degrees C warmer than the 1961–1990 average. Persiste...
Tiers 1.5m Chardonnay 2023 ($90) – In 2003, Brian Croser and his family took 1.3 hectares of the famous Tiers vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley, originally planted in 1979, and replanted it with the French Bernard clones, 76 and 95, in very close, 1.5 metre, spacing. Since 2015, the wine has shown sufficient differences to deserve bottling on its own. Just 350 dozen made.
There is a cool year elegance and leanness to this wine. Beautifully balanced and quite intense, the wine is wonderfully seamless and seductive. An utterly stunning Chardonnay. A line of juicy saline acidity, we have notes of jasmine, white peaches and lemon. There is immaculate balance for the full length of the wine. A cracking Chardonnay, which will provide at least eight to ten years of pleasure. 96.
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