Hazeldene Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
A wine of great purity, with focused citrus and stone fruit
Wine Details
Region Yarra Valley
State Victoria
Wine Type White Wine
Variety Type Chardonnay
Alcohol Percentage 13.5%
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Title 2025 Yarra Valley Wine Show
Description BRONZE
Product Reviews (3)
The Real Review - 91pts
“Light colour for its age, a backward developing wine with a reticent nose, showing some greener herbal/nettle traces and a hint of slivered almond, and the palate confirms this as a lean, early-picked style with high acidity and nerviness. It finishes with a little hardness: surely a wine that demands patience and could reward with cellaring.” – Huon Hooke
Halliday Wine Companion - 96+pts
“From chardonnay planted at the Hazeldene vineyard at Gladysdale in ’13. Six months on lees in tank before release. A pristine, bright green gold. Gorgeous aromas of stone fruits, lightly grilled nuts and marine scents precede the palate, which is rounder and slightly more textured than the Willowlake but no less pristine or structured. Finishes saline and long. Another ’24 Chardonnay from Oakridge that can be confidently cellared for at least the next six to eight years.” – Philip Rich
The Wine Front - 95pts
“Oakridge’s Hazeldene Chardonnay is a perennial favourite and this 2024 is another ripper. This wine is flush with fruit and long through the finish, and while its complexity more or less looks after itself there’s plenty going on beneath the bonnet. Nuts, yellow stone fruits, cooked apples, sweet meal and cracked wheat are all washed through with citrus, cedar and grapefruit. There’s a delicate aspect to the texture, in the best of ways. We are absolutely on song here.” – Campbell Mattinson
