A great expression of modern Australian Chardonnay - balanced between the richness of yesteryear and the tight focus of the new wave. This Chardonnay wears it's cool-climate origins on it's sleeve - the acid really blazes a trail through the rich peach and cooked lemon flavours in this wine, but the bottle age has given it a mellowness that is really nice. Drinks well right now, with a nice butter popcorn thing on the nose.

The Tertini winery sits in a sometimes-overlooked Australian wine region, that of the Southern Highlands. Vines here were planted back in 1855, testament to the potential of the cool-climate region. After planting their vineyard in 2000, the team at Tertini are dedicated to sustainably producing premium, cool-climate wines from a range of varieties from high-altitude vineyards perched along Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Nestled above 500m in the Hilltops and over 700m in the Southern Highlands, this ancient volcanic landscape provides fertile and mineral-rich soils, in turn produces wines with beautiful, cool-climate mineral characters that reflect their unique terroir. Everything is done by hand to ensure the pristine fruit is able to shine in the resultant wines. This journey from vineyard to bottle is guided along by one of Australia’s new breed of young winemakers, Jonathan Holgate. His meticulous approach to winemaking and focus on developing the natural flavours evident in the Tertini fruit is ideally suited to the style and quality of wines they produce.