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2009 Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay

This takes a more complex stance from the regular Xanadu chardonnay, with striking, flinty complexity and assertive, tight-grained French oak, lemon, grapefruit, white peach and chalky mineral accents. The palate is rippling with intensity and carves out impressive shape: lemons, white nectarine, grapefruit and lightly toasty hazelnut flavours, pinned precisely into place with brisk acid. Beautifully judged weight and impressive length.

Nick Stock, Good Wine Guide 2011