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2025 Reserve Chardonnay

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A limited release chardonnay 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
A complex mix of white peach, lemon peel and sea spray sit alongside savoury cheese rind and cashew nut.

Palate
Tension and power play off mixing white and yellow stonefruits, with complex toasty elements. The tightly wound palate has flashes of citrus curd and subtle earthy notes creating an alluring and intriguing profile. The detailed and persistent pure acid line drives the wine across the palate for a long and effortless 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.
96

"This wine is brought together under a barrel selection program from the best of each vintage, and it comes from the Bauhaus Vineyard and Woods Hill vineyards. Typically well fermented and matured in a combination of new and seasoned Burgundian oak for about nine months. On the nose, there is clearly a more pronounced intensity, even a slight toastiness, with the influence of that wild ferment quite evident, but it’s done quite subtly and presents with a delicate degree of finesse. Just a faint hint of struck match and citrus provides a nice balance to the fruit. The palate is delicate, yet intensely flavoured and delivered with a linear extension. A little touch of quince paste just adds a finishing flourish to a very stylish wine."

Ray Jordan

Winepilot

95

"White grapefruit and cinnamon spice lead, with fine cedar quick to follow. Like the estate Chardonnay, this is tightly wound and crystalline on first look, with a great deal clearly held in reserve. A good swirl reveals cashew cream, white florals, white nectarine and saline oyster shell minerality, along with a gentle underlay of flinty reduction adding further complexity. Exciting in its prettiness, purity and power. There's a great balance of energetic tension and creamy texture on the palate, the wine's power funnelled through architectural structure — tight phenolics and rolling waves of saline acidity pulling it all to vivid length. Balance, power, purity, complexity, age-worthiness. Ashton Hills are in the zone right now."

Tom Kline

Winepilot

96

"Read this in tandem with the tasting notes for Ashton Hills’ Piccadilly Vineyard Chardonnay, which sets the scene for this remarkable wine. It’s a best barrel selection from a chosen two of the three source vineyards in the high altitude district of the Adelaide Hills, and simply put, it’s more of everything: deeper fruit, spicier oak, though still deftly balanced, and more intense yellow grapefruit acidity in support to all the flavour that can be mustered out of elite Chardonnay. This is high quality through and through, with a pinpoint understanding of the variety in its modern era."

Tony Love

Winepilot

96

"There’s some lovely aromatics going on here: just-ripe white stone fruit, white lily, grilled nuts, melon rind and a whiff of nougat. Textured and mouth-filling, with a drive of pithy, tangy grapefruit, nectarine and nutty oak. There’s plenty of snappy acidity and the length is impressive. Very smart gear."

Aaron Brasher

The Real Review

95

"The subtle nature of the wine is a charm, soft texture, licked at by honey butter and nougat sweet-savouriness, an undertow of red apple, nectarine, slate-like minerality and a cooling thread of brine/saline inflection. It's got reserve and restraint written into its lore, a distinct finesse, a pleasing persistence. There's something relaxed and broadly inviting to the wine, too. Proper stuff."

Mike Bennie

Halliday Wine Companion

94+

"This chardonnay saves its best to last. It starts off restrained and finishes with a powerful, compelling burst. It tastes of tonic water and lemonade, preserved citrus fruits and pears, with grapefruit, cedar, peach and flint as helping hands. It’s as delicious as it is sophisticated; it reveals something extra each time you return. Over coming years it will only get better."

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front