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2025 Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay

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This Chardonnay is sourced exclusively from the Piccadilly Valley sub-region of the Adelaide Hills, home of Ashton Hills. The Piccadilly Valley is the coldest and wettest part of the region, ideal growing conditions for Chardonnay. Ferment was sparked by indigenous yeasts and the wine matured in a combination of new and used French oak for nine months.

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Bouquet
Lifted white and yellow stonefruits, green melon and white florals mix with preserved lemon, beeswax, greek yoghurt and freshly baked pastries.

Palate
The fresh and lively palate features white nectarine, green mango and lemon infused yoghurt. The pure acid line is framed with a pithy, phenolic texture that provides a long lasting finish.

Growing Conditions
The 2025 vintage was one of the earliest on record across Australia, and the Adelaide Hills was no exception. A warm tail end to winter promoted an early budburst and the continuing warm and dry weather meant that most of the fruit reached ripeness in mid February instead of the typical mid March.
94

"A very fine, sleek and racy expression of chardonnay, where understatement is a reward. Flint, green apple, lime, cinnamon spice, thyme herbal lift, all bundled up in a dart-shape thrust of energetic, lightweight white wine. A good, chalky pucker to finish. Bright as a button."

Mike Bennie

Halliday Wine Companion

94

"From the cooler climes of Piccadilly Valley within the Adelaide Hills comes this quite delightful, delicate, yet flavoursome Chardonnay. It was fermented in oak using wild yeasts and then aged in a mix of new and old Burgundian oak for about nine months. Clearly, the aim is to retain texture and complexity while delivering a degree of delicacy and finesse. It does it in spades. Light lemon curd and citrus with a little vanilla pod on the nose, and then a palate that is quite fine and delicate, yet with a deeper intensity that extends through to a very long finish. This is a really appealing wine for the medium term, but great current drinking."

Ray Jordan

Winepilot

94

"An excellent Chardonnay that takes you on a journey as it unfurls. There's quite a bit of creamy oak on first look before a swirl of the glass unlocks cinnamon, toasted nuts and a plume of wood smoke. The fruit is tightly wound, unfurling at a glacial pace to reveal just-ripe white nectarine, tight lemon and flickers of green apple, before some delicate lees-derived shortcrust pastry and pithy white grapefruit emerge with air. Taut and racy at this young age, though the bones are clearly there. The palate follows in kind — coiled and nervy, with a core trying hard to break free. Lemon, white grapefruit, ground cinnamon, fine cedar. A tight line of chalky phenolics wraps around the palate like a corset, and a shot of citrus-drenched acid saturates the back palate. There's genuine class on show, but its tightness and febrility require patience. When it opens up, it's a brilliant expression. Precise, structural, complex — one to watch blossom with time in the cellar."

Tom Kline

Winepilot

93

"It’s clean, it’s fruity, it’s savoury around the edges and it’s a joy to drink. This chardonnay is straight down the line but gee everything has been executed very well. Pear, grapefruit, hay, cedar and yellow stonefruit characters put on a juicy, well-flavoured, energetic display from start to finish. The hay-like notes become more apparent as the wine breathes, as a positive. Lovely wine, this one."

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front

93

"Pretty aromas of just-ripe white stone fruit, grapefruit pith, grilled nuts, spice and a touch of struck flint. Fine and focused, with a drive of citrus, nectarine and tangy acidity. There's lovely complexity and layers here. Delicious."

Aaron Brasher

The Real Review