Coming Soon - 2023 Mount Mary Chardonnay

Mount Mary's Chardonnay has long been defined by its balance of richness and restraint. The winemaking draws on Burgundian influence, yet the expression remains firmly of the Yarra Valley. The fruit is barrel-fermented, with about 30% new French oak, and aged for 11 months with gentle lees stirring to enhance texture and length. Malolactic fermentation is avoided to preserve the fruit’s natural acidity; the result is a wine of purity and precision that sits at the core of the estate's style.

Other Reviews....
A wonderful balance of power and restraint, with complex aromas sitting on the edge of reduction — preserved lemons, lanolin, honeysuckle, struck matches, crushed stones, citrus blossoms and white stone fruits. The palate has seamless texture and weight, in harmony with a core of fruit-supported, tightly wound acidity and a mineral drive. The concentration leaves you salivating for minutes. Great nerve and tension bring this wine together. Truly excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
98 points
JamesSuckling.com

The 2023 Chardonnay is nutty and restrained, with a salty splay of acidity through the middle palate and finish. The wine is creamy, layered and sophisticated, and it is shaped by taut phenolics that support the abundance of fruit flavor in the mouth. After just one sip at the beginning of this note, the flavors and chalky texture can still be felt. An excellent wine each year, this 2023 no exception. There are notes of biscotti, spiced almonds, cashew, white peach, sea salt and stewed apple. What a gorgeous wine this is. It is harmonious. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2038.
97 points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

20% whole-bunch pressed, the balance crushed and destemmed. Matured in French puncheons and barriques (30% new) for 11 months. A concentrated Mount Mary Chardonnay where the volume has been turned up in '23! An intense bouquet of white peach, confit lemon, fresh vanilla bean and oyster shells. There's a lot going on and this follows perfectly onto the mouth-filling, powerful, structured and harmonious palate. This will give pleasure for at least 10 if not 15-plus years. Drink 2025-2030.
97 points
Philip Rich - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion

Mount Mary is one of those wineries that don’t really need to send wines in for review, because they sell through very quickly, so I appreciate that they do. One of those things. I guess it’s because Sam Middleton is always stiving for excellence. I’ve been blacklisted by so many wineries these days, that I can’t even begin to count them. The best wineries take the rough with the smooth, though, admittedly, with MM, it’s pretty much always smooth. And that’s fine by me. Water finds its own level…
This is a rich and zesty wine. Gee, it has some power. I’m thinking pear, peach, pink grapefruit, almond friand, a little struck match complexity, fennel and white flower/vanilla perfume. It’s juicy, it’s flinty, heaps good stone fruit flavour and intensity, some lime zest, tight acidity, with a nutty and ripe finish of superb length. So much flavour, yet tightly coiled and fine. Outstanding. Drink 2026 - 2036+.
96 points
Gary Walsh - The Wine Front