Scores aren’t a science but there’s a degree of relief when you look at a wine eight months down the track and your impressions and rating haven’t changed that much. I don’t believe the wine has either. It’s precisely the case with my favourite of the current release Ten Minutes Chardonnays, the 2011 Wallis. In fact, my note on that wine is almost a carbon copy of the earlier one and the score is exactly the same, right down to the plus sign (94+ for the record) - so there’s no point reviewing it again.
Leesy, washed rind funk sits behind powerful melon and white stonefruit flavours. Nuts, smoke, grapefruit and flint. A quality oak chassis. Opulent, full-bodied but not overdone. Transparency of site is there for all to see. It also has an extra degree of length over the 2011 Estate Chardonnay. 93
Region: Mornington Peninsula
Alcohol: 13.0%
Closure: Screwcap
Price: $65
Tasted: October 2013