The 2021 Grand Reserve Chardonnay from Mount Brown is an outstanding follow up the the highly impressive inaugural vintage.
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"A distinctive bouquet with many familiars scents of Chardonnay from yellow stone fruits to nut and spices of oak. There’s also a youthful flinty reductive quality adding complexity and breadth. On the palate a weighty smooth textured expression with a core of ripe stone fruit and citrus flavours laced with oak, plenty of acidity and fine tannin texture both adding lengthy and complexity. Well made, youthful and new with best drinking from late 2024 through 2029."
5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, November 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"This is gorgeously complex and engaging on the nose, showing ripe stone fruit, baked fig, hazelnut and brioche characters with a flinty overtone. The palate displays excellent weight and richness, while remaining refined and poised with terrific structure and length. Wonderfully harmonious and balanced with layers of delectable flavours. At its best: now to 2031."
4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"The powerful, fleshy 2021 vintage was handled for 18 months in oak barrels. Bright, light yellow/green, it is weighty, with rich, youthful stonefruit flavours, gently seasoned with toasty oak, excellent complexity and harmony, balanced acidity and a slightly creamy texture. Already highly enjoyable, it should be at its best mid-2024+."