Giant Steps Chardonnay Sexton Vineyard Yarra Valley 2005
White
Yarra Valley, Australia
7.2
WineSaint
Smoke and struck match reduction gives way to white peach and honeydew melon. The palate is all tension and mineral cut, citrus pith and wet stone driving through lees-derived texture. Needs time to unfurl - the structure suggests another 5-7 years will reveal more.
smokewhite peachcitrus pithwet stone
Label
Giant Steps
→Giant Steps is one of the Yarra Valley's benchmark chardonnay producers, working a range of single-vineyard sites across the appellation to make wines of precision and site distinction rather than a house style imposed from above.