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Heirloom Vineyards Adelaide Hills Assen's Fortalice Chardonnay

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Star bright white-gold and just-cut straw; then a richer hue hinting at the depth and complexity to come. A parallel test of White Burgundy and Adelaide Hills Chardonnay? So the fruit and oak bouquet suggests. Richer fruit and creamy oak, yet then minerality and pertness. Green apples freshly cut, stone fruits ripe but from a cooler season. Uplifting. The counter-arguing fruit flavours alluded to play, as if contented children. Yes - a make believe world. Purity of aromatics, yet the gentle duty of the oak. One wonders, happily. Clear and balletic acidity jigsaw the flavour components neatly together. Some phenolic grip asserts, and then clear and clean fruit flavours of green apples and peaches and white nectarine land. The wine's texture is at one moment a concentrate, and then immediately freshly fallen rain. The palate therefore seems swift - and yet underneath moves a gentle tow of more complex and mesmerising, mermaiden currents. Catch me if you can, or tie yourself to the mast.

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