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Description
Nic Peterkin's star is on the rise. He forms part of the New Guard of WA wine, blazing a new trail for the West.
With deep family roots in Margaret River wine and a lifetime spent surrounded by some of the finest examples of Margaret River Chardonnay, Nic has a keen eye for quality fruit and has his own take on style for the Great White Grape of Margaret River.
Here, Nic takes fruit from a 25 year old vineyard in the heart of Wilyabrup, the epicentre of top-flight Chardonnay for this region. He then lets it ferment in clay amphoras in a range of sizes, giving complexity and depth to the wine. It's a pure expression of Margaret River Chardonnay, stone fruity, citrus, with a hint of flintiness and beautiful texture.
96 points
"Generous smoky/flinty reduction overlying ripe grapefruit aromas—a classic Gin Gin clone wine. Superb fruit: very regional and very Gin Gin. Powerful flavour teamed with refinement and penetrating length. A real finesse chardonnay and quite superb."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
95 points
"A beauty to sniff on. Flavours sway between limey margaritas, tonic, sweet lemon and light gingery spice. It’s got this pleasing saline, talc and briny chew to it too. Really good drinking here."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
95 points
"Smells of a lime daiquiri – salty, tangy yet waxy, textural and flavoursome. Riper in style, in terms of fruit weight, with white nectarine/peach to the fore and grapefruit, too.... It lingers, it’s complex, detailed and as compelling as it is delicious."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)
95 points
"The wine is opulently styled and quite ripe, but it works... There is something quite grown-up/sophisticated about the wines from this vintage, and it shows in this wine."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
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