Domaine Defialy 2024 Macedon Ranges Chardonnay 'Candlebark Hill' (MAGNUM)

“Glowing straw gold in the glass. You're hit with a mass of exotic ripe stonefruit, roasted apples, and peaches straight from the get-go. There is a lovely toasted bran and nuttiness showing behind that, mixing with some tangelo rinds.

The palate is round and waxy, and has some soft yoghurty vibes, Yakulty.  Fresh hazelnuts, peach skins, shortcrust cobbler, almost sherbet-like phenolic tingling leads into a saline-edged finish. It's active and open knit, probably from the use of amphore, but in the best way, not bacterial. You feel this ferrous, red earth soil presence at the very back, like a mineral thumbprint. David said the words ‘Pommard blanc’. It's good.” - Will