2007 Allegra Chardonnay

REVIEW

James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion, August 2010

Full green-gold; a highly focused wine, with a stainless steel core of minerally acidity allied with lemon zest/pith flavours; challenges normal boundaries. Find review here.

Huon Hooke, Good Living, Sydney Morning Herald

The 2007 Allegra Chardonnay carried off the trophies for best chardonnay and best wine of show (Geelong Wine Show). This is a beautifully refined but powerful, complex, lingering wine, with some funky complexities from barrel ferment and lees-maturation. Read more here.

Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, August 2009

This is grown at Mount Duneed, in the Geelong region. It’s wild yeast fermented and matured in all new French barrels. Crop rate was, again, at 1.5 tonne per acre.

Oak is more obvious here than it is on the ‘standard’ Lethbridge chardonnay, but it is by no means overdone. In fact it’s delicious, and appropriately applied. This wine needs a year or two to settle into itself though. It tastes of nectarine, grapefruit and citrus fruits, with creamy, spicy oak integrated throughout – and a spot of waxiness on the finish. It’s perfectly balanced, elegant and yet adequately powered. A beautiful drink. Find review here.

Jane Faulkner, Saturday Age, November 22 2008

This has style and while it’s richer, there’s a heart of vibrant acidity and freshness. Stone fruit and figs, merely with leesy notes, rich palate and textural, terrific length and fine oak that will be less pro-nounced over time – after all, this is a young chardonnay. Find review here.