Chardonnay vines in Margaret River, Australia
Australian Chardonnay has come of age. Since the bumptious iterations swaddled in oak of the 1990s, via the anorexic prototypes of the mid-2000s, the idiom has moved away from liminal extremes, to one that nestles comfortably between tension and ebullient fruit, with increasingly clear regional demarcations.
While effete comparisons with Burgundy’s best were often buoyed by the parochial drumbeat of the Australian press, there has long been something about Australian Chardonnay that is distinctly, well, Australian.
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