Leeuwin Estate, Art Series Chardonnay, 2022
Leeuwin Estate, Art Series Chardonnay, 2022
- 75cl
- 14%
- White Still
- Chardonnay
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Optimal drinking window: 2030 - 2047
97 points from Erin Larkin (WA), and up there with the world’s greatest white wines. Textural, layered, and structured, Leeuwin's 2022 Art Series Chardonnay has the finesse of Grand Cru white Burgundy, with the personality and power that only Margaret River can deliver.
"Real freshness across the range. These new releases from Leeuwin should appeal to Old World drinkers, as well as New."
Stewart Pryce, Buying Guru
Leeuwin Estate was established in the mid-1970s when Denis and Tricia Horgan planted vines on their former cattle ranch in Margaret River, a few hundred miles south of Perth. With early guidance from Robert Mondavi, they got off to a flying start.
Just a couple of years after their first vintage in 1979, they were already earning international acclaim. Among the first in the region to plant Chardonnay—using Burgundian clones in a Bordeaux-focused area—it proved to be a brilliant move.
What the critics say:
"The 2022 season was warm and low-yielding, particularly for Chardonnay, and many of the wines produced in the region this season can be typified by their nuttiness and a distinct chamomile tea/white flower character. Here, the 2022 Art Series Chardonnay is showing both of those characters, neatly wedged into the authoritative profile of Leeuwin Art Series Chardonnay. Today, for perhaps the first time ever in seeing these wines on release, I note that the oak is a key player in the drinking experience—as ever, seamlessly matched to the fruit and an important part of the wine's style and evident here today. There are toasted nuts, yellow fruits, exotic spices and an open fan of acidity/phenolics through the finish. This 2022 will prove to be a powerful and statuesque player in the wider footprint of Art Series Chardonnays. It's one to collect, but for drinking in the short/immediate term, decanting is recommended."
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