Light straw.This premium Chardonnay just keeps winning the accolades. Sourced from very low yielding vines and gently allowed to do its thing in the winery. Outstanding.
2016 Jones Road Nepean Chardonnay is precise, intense and rippling with concentration and nerve. Fresh-cut new French oak offers aromas of grilled hazelnuts, vanillin and spice with nougat and ripe pears, grapefruit citrus and florals. Very complex.
The palate has fine- etched acidity and savoury nutty barrel fermentation flavours. A piercing and linear wine with restrained grapefruit flavour, finishing crisp and mouth – wateringly fresh.To be enjoyed now and can be cellared for 7 + years.
Although nothing is said about it, the percentage of new oak in this bottling of 200 dozen seems significantly higher than that of its sibling. The flavours also take in white peach and nectarine to further broaden the flavour spectrum.