Saturday, 7 February 2015

Drinking Tonight - 2009 Heytesbury Chardonnay, Vasse Felix


With skewers filled with pieces of halibut, salmon and scallops and a white wine sauce and angel hair pasta I opened a bottle of this perennial favourite of mine.

2009 Heytesbury Chardonnay, Vasse Felix
This Margaret River Chardonnay is a charmer right out of the bottle. From the glass notes of white peaches, crushed flint, caramel, lemon cream and a touch of pineapple flows up. Really yummy, yet with a fine concentration and focus.
The taste is creamy and intense with lovely sweet yellow fruit and notes of sweet limes, cap gun smoke, milk chocolate fudge, white flowers and gravel. A long, balanced finish that ends dry. Very, very good. Will go on for years although I don´t think it will get better.
92p   (tasted 2015/02)


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  1. Montosoli9 February 2015 at 01:13

    Glad to know the Chard is working out.....I have 5bt of their 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Margaret River....undrinkable .....the worst ever had from this area

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    1. Joakim9 February 2015 at 11:46

      Haven´t tried it. Too bad, maybe still too young.

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