Giaconda Wines Chardonnay Estate Vineyard 2017
White
Beechworth, Australia
9.3
WineSaint
Coiled tight like a spring, the concentration here is almost painful in its intensity. Granitic minerality runs through the core, but everything feels locked down - the oak still raw and unresolved, the phenolics gripping hard. There's extraordinary material here, but it needs a decade minimum to show what it's really made of.
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Label
Giaconda Wines
→Giaconda is Beechworth's benchmark producer, built around a single estate vineyard in the granite-inflected hills of northeast Victoria. The Chardonnay is one of Australia's most sought-after whites.