Vasse Felix Heytesbury Chardonnay 2022

Vasse Felix Heytesbury Chardonnay 2022Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Wines of the World of 2024 (#10) Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wines of 2024 Vasse Felix, Margaret Rivers founding wine estate, is one of the heavyweights of Australian wine. The first Chardonnay under the flagship Heytesbury label was made in 1996, but it was the arrival of Virginia Willcock as Chief Winemaker in 2006 that helped it become a benchmark Australian Chardonnay. The wine quickly became a sensation on the wine

A sappy sensation dominates as the tactile is rapidly overtaken by the aromatic

though it's the feel

with abundant softly drying tannins and a bold

brightly lit dark fruit backed by savoury oak and framed by a firmish chalky spine

quite solid tannins

aromas of nougat

but it sat beautifully with the food

Typically low yields and harvesting at the perfect flavour/acid profile lead to the delicate flavours and balance that defines our Writer’s Block Riesling

" Linda Murphy

fruit intensity

Thomas was the region's first settler and is widely regarded as the father of the South Australian wine industry

and as befits the vintage