Pierre Girardin other_regions_australia Like the Bâtard

Like the Bâtard

it is both serious and seductive with the sort of benchmark elegance the château would like to repeat

This is right up there with Australias best and that is saying something given the caliber of Aussie Chardonnays today

Reduction again has the upper hand versus the fruit today

Pierre Girardin other_regions_australia Like the Bâtard(75% whole clusters; from a parcel near the bottom of Clos St. Jacques). A brooding and reticent nose grudgingly offers up its array of ripe but cool wild black berries and forest floor that is trimmed in hints of wood and menthol. There is excellent vibrancy to the detailed and stony middle weight flavors that are not particularly dense but do offer outstanding length where the supporting tannins are quite fine grained in the context of what is