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Clonale has hit the big time! Auditioned next to Pierro Chardonnay 09 for inclusion this week and Clonale got the gig – it’s a better wine! Ooh, aah! Ricocheting with grapefruit, fig and persimmon exoticity, nuanced with smoked ham, pulling into a clean-crafted finish. Rating: 94 points Tyson Tselzer

Vibrant pale straw colour with a tinge of green. Subtle aromas of grapefruit, white peach, and orange blossom. Grapefruit mingling with lemon barley, brioche, and honeydew melon flavours. The palate mixes a thickness of texture with crisp acidity. Lemon zest, nectarine and a distinctly savory, almost salty cracker, type of flavour. There's plenty of things to like here, it's not too austere, oak is subtle and toned down, it's mid-weight yet of full flavour and there's a long tight flinty finish. Wheaty complexity too. . This is a lovely drinking wine. Rated : 93 Points Winefront.com.au

..we believe we've created the Jessica Rabbit of chardonnays. This fantastically yummy wine has a luscious, heavily perfumed nose, zesty citrus tang, and a rich palate glittering with golden oak. It’s a dazzling, warm, lemon-lime tart in a crisp walnut crust with lashings of cream. Be seduced!

One taste and I was heard to utter the word: whoa....  Nobody told me there’d be wines like these – at this kind of price. Sophistication for the in-the-know masses. The pinot noir plays it straight; the chardonnay plays a more complex hand. Grapefruit, citrus, matchsticks, ginger, general leesy funk. Green melon. Effusive on the nose and lively in the mouth. Mid palate flesh and confident, frisky length. Very young, but very good.  94+ Points Winefront Campbell Mattinson