Tony Bish Golden Egg Chardonnay 2023

The winery writes "Pale straw with green highlights. Lifted white flower aromas with lime blossom, honeydew melon, and a flinty dry stone minerality. The palate is energetic with pink grapefruit, honeydew melon juiciness, and a silky textural flow. The finish has a saline mineral quality with fresh and textured acidity leading to a salivating palatableness."

Cameron Douglas MS writes "A fascinating and complex wine with a bouquet that is slow at first to open up then suddenly a rush of aromas that embrace ripe white fleshed fruits, sweet grapefruit, and gentle mineral complexities. A poised and youthful wine touches the palate, first reflecting flavours from the bouquet then showcasing a mineral and sense of place layer. Persistent, taut and textured remains the theme with core flavours from fruits, lees and a fine chalky mouthfeel."

Stephen Wong writes "Complex layers of flint, subtle citrus and pineapple, seasoned with subtle spice and smoke. Slow to unfurl, it is tightly reductive on the palate where steely flavours linger across the pithy phenolics on the back palate before snakeskin-like phenolics spread across the creamy but austere finish. A very young wine with excellent structure and interesting mouth-feel, this is built in the classical manner with a streak of fashionable reduction though the fruit within is strangely shaded and quiet."

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit writes "Elegant and alluring, this seductive wine shows nectarine, lemon pith, green rockmelon and almond meal nuances on the nose with a hint of flinty mineral. The concentrated palate displays brilliant structure and persistency, with delightfully flowing mouthfeel and finely infused acidity. A stunning beauty offering finesse and poise with a prolonged, linear finish."