Alkoomi takes advantage of the cool maritime climes around it's Frankland River vineyards to showcase the natural charm of Chardonnay. Finished to a fresh and fruit driven unoaked styling, the wonderful features of this wine make it a cinch with all good faire.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Alkoomi make use of water supplied from on site dams efficiently to prevent vine stress during extended dry periods without sacrificing the naturally low yields that produce concentrated flavours. The vines are all pruned by hand, harvesting occurs in the cool of the morning, usually starting at 2.00 am, to ensure that grapes arrive at the winery in top condition. The winery is completely self-contained, including bottling, labelling and packaging. Chardonnay grapes are picked in the second week of February having achieved the perfect baumes and pH levels for this style of wine. Alkoomi was tank fermented and bottled immediately after vinification to retain freshness. Alcohol 13.3%

Brilliant pale straw with light green hues. Aroma of peaches and cream with subtle savoury notes. The balanced palate is rich with creamy length flavours of rockmelon and peach are complemented by underlying citrus notes and supported by nutty complexity, leading to a lingering, full flavoured finish. A wine made to appreciate in its youth, vibrant and fresh.

Andrew Garrett is fashioned to express the vitality of the ripe fruit whence it originates. A soft, well balanced wine with generous flavours enhanced by subtle oak, retaining the attractive varietal characters of the Chardonnay grape. Wines that bear the Andrew Garrett brand reflect a personal commitment to quality and many years experience. Whether it's music or food, good company or a great bottle of wine, it's all about taking the time to look after yourself and unwind. Enjoy Andrew Garrett Chardonnay with warm friends, cool tunes and hot jazz.

$1299each $153DOZEN EACH DOZEN Andrew Garrett is committed to extensive, long term viticultural development and environmentally sustainable winemaking in Australia. The fruitgrowers and winemakers manage the vineyards with care and devotion. An ensemble of physiologically ripe parcels of fruit were sourced from premium vineyards to compose this stylish wine. Grapes are selected from good vineyards earmarked for their propensity to yield fruit of generous flavour profiles and consistent quality. Fruit is crushed and the skins are removed to amplify the bright varietal characters. After inoculation to select yeasts and a long, cool fermentation the wine is assembled and lightly filtered before bottling. Approx 13.5%

Pale gold in colour. A bouquet of ripe peaches before a palate showing rich fruit characters tempered by crisp, fresh acidity and just a hint of oak. Notes of ripe peach and melon, tropical fruits and citrus harmonise on the deep, elegant palate. The balance between acid and fruit, light oak and varietal fruit, is impeccable, the milky oak enhances but does not dominate. Refreshing and flavoursome, enjoy with seafood and poultry, pasta or spicy Asian. Enjoy life, enjoy Andrew Garrett.

Pure Clare Valley Chardonnay, some of it from blocks which can trace a lineage back to the original Quelltaler vineyards, the first Aussie wine ever formally served to the UK House of Commons! Annie's Lane recounts the legend of a local lass who operated a mobile canteen in the Clare Valley, providing sandwiches and warm drinks to harvesters and pruners working in the vineyard.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Annie's Lane cuts through one of the Clare Valley's first vineyards. To this day, the Annie's Lane team retain some of the most distinguished sites and secure the best quality grapes. Harvests of Chardonnay are sourced which can weigh in with the smallest berries, show great colour and offer the biggest flavours. Some thinning of the vines during the growing season keeps the fruit flavours and palate weight developing. Following the crush, unclarified juices are left to settle and racked off lees before a portion is fermented in oak, combining the bright fruit driven characters with a touch of nutty, leesy complexity. The remainder is tank vinified, slow and cool, retaining the vital regional charm of Clare Valley Chardonnay.

Pale straw with green hues. Aromas of peach and cinnamon develop into lively varietal flavours across the soft and full flavoured palate. Citrus notes, grapefruit and integrated background oak characters create complexity. Enjoy Annies Lane with Alfresco cuisine and chicken pasta recipes.

Chardonnay grapes picked off vines, planted to splendid decomposed granite soils atop the soaring heights of slow ripening Tumbarumba, are minimally handled with a view to maximizing fruit character and regional expression. Under & Over is a fresh and vibrant Chardonnay wine, fashioned to be enjoyed as aperitif or alongside good food, immensely approachable in its youth.

$1299each $153DOZEN EACH DOZEN Tumbarumba's cool climate and elevated aspects, where the vines can be planted to altitudes of 900m, are vital to the production of remarkable Chardonnay wines exhibiting great elegance, subtlety and length. Sustainable viticulture calls for low yields, achieving intense wines of moderate alcohol, requiring minimal additions and limited oak. Armchair Critic source their Chardonnay from some of the finest Tumbarumba sites. Harvests of partially hand picked fruit are completely de-stemmed before a cool and quick, precision actuated vinification to maximise varietal purity. The wine is primarily matured in tank while a smaller component is aged in a selection of mostly older oak barrels for complexity.

Pale light straw colour. Crisp aromas of river stones, citrus flowers, stonefruits and lemon. The palate is equally pure and fruit driven with grapefruit, citrus and white apple flavours supported by a fine mineral backbone and bracing acidity. A well balanced wine of character and complexity, crafted to a crisp and refreshing, faintly oaked, fruit driven style, Under & Over is decidedly a grown up style of Chardonnay.

Raise a glass to Banrock Station, knowing that proceeds from every drop are donated to environmental projects around the world. The Banrock Station vineyards were developed out of a severely degraded property after a century of sheep grazing. Banrock today are a showcase of sustainable viticulture, employing solar power and renewable materials, leaving a minimal environmental footprint. The cleanest, healthiest grapes are vinified into a fully flavoured, generous Chardonnay wine, without the addition of any sulphur or preservatives whatsoever.

$1499each $177DOZEN EACH DOZEN If you love fine wine, you'll appreciate Banrock Station's commitment to the good earth whence it comes. A massive undertaking has seen the area's native wetlands and woodlands restored, creating a healthy environment for the nurture of the cleanest and greenest Chardonnay vines. Native birds flock to the property and it is also a site for eco-tourism. Banrock Station takes care to select healthy grapes of the highest quality, showing concentrated flavours and zesty acid. Fruit and wine, throughout all stages of vinification, are handled gently, with meticulous care to avoid exposure to elements which may cause spoilage. At no stage in the process is any preservative SO2 added. Approx 12.5%

Pale straw colour. Intense aromas of citrus and peach with hints of tropical notes, spicy vanilla bean over a light influence of supple oak. The palate is rich, generous and complex, displaying juicy fruit salad flavours, peaches, melons and honeydew. A soft and creamy medium bodied, textural wine, showing balanced acids and excellent length. Lingers long and satisfying, an excellent food friendly Chardonnay, enjoy alongside flavourful seafood and chicken recipes.

Meaning place of water, Barwang owes the character of it's wines to the most exacting standards of viticulture. An affinity for the land and a holistic approach to sustainable vineyard management is essential to the final goal of delivering bold, flavoursome wines. Characterised by a multitude of steep slopes, rich basalt soils and high altitude, the growing conditions at Tumbarumba contribute greatly to providing a long ripening period which consistently produces Chardonnay with exceptional flavour and heightened concentration of essential varietal fruit.

$1499each $177DOZEN EACH DOZEN The assorted blocks of Chardonnay vines are grown to altitudes between 840m and 500m. These sites produce a diversity of parcels from which to assemble a well balanced and complete wine. Following an evening and early morning harvest, fruit is transferred to the winery and tipped directly into the press for a slow, gentle cycle, ensuring only the finest free run juices are extracted prior to a short cold settle. Batches are racked to a selection of new and seasoned French oak barriques, taking along a substantial amount of press solids. A mixture of natural and inoculated yeast ferments encourage complexity. Upon completion, parcels are stirred twice weekly before nine months maturation and assemblage.

Pale straw colour. White peach, nectarine and fig characters over fresh green apple undertones. The nose is complex with subtle gunflint and biscuit aromas adding to the interest of this Chablis inspired wine. Impeccably structured, Tumbarumba shows intense fruit flavours, wonderful texture from battonage and beautiful length derived from the ample natural acidity, coalescing into a complex and classy wine.

Bellarmine jugs were used throughout the middle ages to carry wine from oak cask to table. The terroirs and clime around the Bellarmine vineyard at Pemberton are a Chardonnay maker's dream come true. Soils are red gravel laterite which provide excellent drainage while providing warmth to the vine root systems at night, courtesy of the sunshine that the gravels have absorbed during the day.

$1899each $225DOZEN EACH DOZEN Chardonnay is sourced exclusively from Bellarmine vineyard in the high quality cool climate region of Pemberton. Fruit is harvested throughout the cool of night. Juices are gently pressed off skins and separated from the harder solids. Juices are cold settled for two days, the clear juices are racked away from lees and innoculated. A portion is transferred to oak for fermentation, the balance remains in tank. Ferments are temperature controlled to achieve a gradual drop in sugar levels whilst retaining maximum flavour. Upon completion, the wines are batonaged to infuse complexity and introduce a touch of creaminess, followed by three months maturation in a selection of new and seasoned French oak barrels.

Pale yellow colour. Stonefruits and nectarine, citrus with subtle oak. Complex palate with citrus, green apple, and nectarine flavours. Subtle spicy oak, tight acidity and a creamy texture with minerality, good length and persistence. A ightly wooded dry white wine made to the Chablis style. Enjoy with crispy skin roast chicken and good wet cheese.

The Bidgeebong Triangle encompasses three distinct districts, Tumbarumba at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, Hilltops and the Murrumbidgee plain around Gundagai. A vibrantly fruit driven, easy drinking cool climate Chardonnay, the finish is long and lingering.

$1499each $177DOZEN EACH DOZEN Bidgeebong's state of the art winery is located at Wagga Wagga, in close proximity to Charles Sturt University, the nation's major wine science and research centre. Bidgeebong's vineyards are meticulously managed to yield grapes of optimum flavour and balanced acidity. The estate's Chardonnay vines in particular are some of the most fastidiously husbanded examples in the region. Parcels of Chardonnay are harvested and delivered promptly to the estate wineworks where they are crushed, inoculated and vinified to a fruit driven style, completely unwooded and unoaked. A combination of natural and controlled primary fermentation techniques are employed to construct a wine of great depth and complexity. Alcohol 12.5%

Mid straw colour. Clean and flavoursome with an abundance of tropical fruit flavours and aromas. A rich and generous easy drinking Chardonnay showing vigorous varietal characters complemented by a fresh clean finish. A white that would go nicely with smoked trout, fetta quiche or salmon fillets.

Adelaide Hills are but an hour's drive from Bleasdale but the style of Chardonnay grown to the cool ripening aspects of elevated, undulating hillsides is a world away from that grown to the Bleasdale property at Langhorne Creek. The Adelaide Hills style is distinctly crisper and more aromatic, one could say it even tastes chilled at room temperature. An extravagant course of barrel ferments, wild yeast vinification and lees exposure makes a richly textured Chardonnay wine with good colour, savoury vanillan aromatics and solid palate structure.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Bleasdale is Australia's most enduring family operated wineries, tracing it's establishment to 1858 when Frank Potts planted his vines on the banks of Bremer River. He named his property after Reverend John Ignatius Bleasdale who advocated a sober, wine drinking community to the exclusion of hard spirits. A sound business case indeed. Sauvignon Blanc grapes are hand picked from choice Adelaide Hills sites and gently whole bunch pressed directly to French oak barrels. Fermentations are inititated by wild indigenous yeasts from the vineyard still present on the skins, followed by a regimen of lees stirring battonage and nine months maturation before bottling. Alcohol 13.0%

Light straw yellow colour. The big, steely nose displays complex aroma of stonefruits and citrus, almond, tapioca and meal. A creamy palate with layers of melon, nectarine and golden delicious flavours, a touch of biscuit and lemon/ almond notes before a crisp, drying and savoury fruit filled finish. A revitalizing style for contemporary palates, the Chardonnay of choice to enjoy alongside prawns or shitake chicken tortelli.

The benchmark in Langhorne Creek Chardonnay, vinified from the choicest parcels of fruit grown to some of the nation's most fertile soils. Whilst Bleasdale is steeped in the history of Australian red winemaking, it maintains a flair for impressive whites. A dry unwooded style showing attractive fresh lingering flavours of pear juice, melons and peaches. This is a wine to enjoy while it is young and lively, match with chicken and seafood dishes for maximum enjoyment. Bleasdale is full, round and lively, with a soft, creamy texture and inspired, lingering flavours.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Founded in 1850, Bleasdale make honest, consistent, reliable wines which are enjoyed throughout the world. The vineyards are situated on the fertile flood plains of the Bremer River, which runs parallel to Langhorne Creek. The region still experiences natural floods from the high rainfall that gushes out of the Adelaide Hills and heads towards the sea from time to time. The deluge gives vines a deep soaking drink just before the parching Australian summer. Bleasdale is treated to a cold temperature controlled fermentation with select yeasts, followed by prompt bottling to achieve a well balanced Chardonnay with fruit dominance and good complexity while retaining vibrant aromatics. Alcohol 13.5%

Pale yellow colour. Aromas of citrus and peach, delicate fragrances of honey dew and granny smith. A palate of bright varietal characters showing pear, lemon and melons.

The superb Laira Vineyard was established by Captain Stentiford in 1893 on a premium parcel of choice Coonawarra Terra rossa soils. Pioneer and patron of the Coonawarra, Eric Brand became custodian of the vineyard more than half a century later. Today, Brand's Laira are widely regarded as some of the region's best plantings, producing wines of exceptional quality as evidenced by their consistent wine show success. The distinctive small berries of the vineyard lead to below average yields, translating into wines with intense fruit characters.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Fruit is harvested in the cool of early morning and immediately pressed, only the free run juices being utilised. After cold settling and racking to clarify, vinification is initiated. The fermenting juices are then transferred to fine grained French oak barrels, a portion of which are new, for completion. One component is selected to undergo a natural or wild fermentation another component is treated to malolactic which gives the wine greater complexity and flavour. Laira remains on yeast lees and is matured in barrel with weekly stirring of the lees conducted to give the wine a creamy texture and flavour. The individual parcels are assessed and assembled before filtration and bottling.

Pale straw gold with green hues. Perfumed nose displaying creamy peach and stone fruit aromas, guava and peach, complemented by some mineral notes, creamy butterscotch and cashew nut oak from barrel ferments and maturation. The fruit driven palate is complex, smooth and rounded with a balanced acid structure. It displays peach and nectarine primary fruit accompanied by creamy cashew nut characters derived from ageing on lees and malolactic. The finish is long with fine, lingering fruit flavours. A refreshing Chardonnay, brimming with approachability and poise, to mate with fine gourmandise, such as a baked walnut and tarragon crusted trout.

Margaret River conjures up images of windswept capes and maritime living, the Fremantle doctor and balmy nights around a good bottle or two of chilled Chardonnay. Breathing Space are all about the fun and funk of the sun and surf, an exciting range of contemporarily styled wines which are designed to escape the chaos of the big city and bring the drinker to a place that's always relaxed and easy, perpetually sunny and 30°C. A fresh and crisp Chardonnay, minimally handled, permitting the Margaret River fruit to speak without the influence of any oak.

$1499each $177DOZEN EACH DOZEN Sourced from premiere vineyards, Breathing Space puts a focus on capturing the intense Margaret River regionality while retaining eloquence of varietal character. The highly favourable mesoclimes are further tempered by prevailing winds from the Indian Ocean which deliver excellent ripening conditions throughout the growing season. Great emphasis is placed on the selection of Chardonnay, minimal winemaking influence allows the fruit to be the defining factor in the finished wine. The finished Chardonnay wine is fashioned to drinking beautifully immediately upon release, bottles promptly after vinification, vitally fruit driven, unwooded and unoaked. Alcohol 12.5%

Light lemon straw colour. Luscious nose of rock melon, peaches, nectarine and honey dew. Persistent palate of green melon and bright, primary orchard fruit flavours, golden delicious and guava over a soft, youthful acidity. A clean finish with crisp mineral textures and refined summer straw notes. A delightfully fresh rendering of Margaret River Chardonnay that drinks magnificently on its own and flatters white meat dishes, fresh seafood or pungent, wet soft cheese.