Stefano Lubiana Estate Chardonnay 2020
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SLEC202010 UCAU
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Mike Bennie: 95/100 "This is the chardonnay you jam into people’s faces."
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James Halliday: 95/100 "The groundwork for a long-lived chardonnay."
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BBQ, butterflied spatchcock, or seared Tasmanian scallops with browned butter lemon sauce.
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1 or more bottles$62.99
Editors notes
This wine has all the elements of a great Chardonnay present – fruit, oak, acid, creamy texture & complexity, but no element overpowers the other. This wine displays some lovely intense minerality, but with its vibrant citrus fruit characters and stylish French oak nuances very much to the fore. The palate is well-ripened and supple, yet deliberately held in check by fine oak tannins and lingering natural acidity.
The wine’s enhanced palate weight means that it can be enjoyed with some quite substantial food dishes, such as char-grilled stripey trumpeter from the BBQ, butterflied spatchcock, or seared Tasmanian scallops with browned butter lemon sauce.
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- Apple
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Critic Scores & reviews
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Mike Bennie
95"(2018 vintage) What a lovely, delicious, moreish thing this is. This is the chardonnay you jam into people’s faces and say ‘hey, this is what quality wine is’. It oozes charm, sleek and slick in texture, fresh fruit seasoned appropriately with spice, lemon curd, fresh stone fruit, minerally licks like pumice and talc, zingy acidity, all even, all matched, seamless and flowing and so darn good. Just beautiful."
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James Halliday
95"(2018 vintage) A wine with strong Tasmanian credentials including an inner energy, steely reserve and powerful acidity. That’s the groundwork for a long-lived chardonnay, right there. Immediately reserved and still youthful with grapefruit pith, lemon curd, cut pear, fleshy mango. Good, strong backbone in play with a linear line of citrus infusion. A waiting game kind of wine, be patient."
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Australia
Australia's wine industry is a thriving part of the country's economy, contributing significantly to employment, production, export, and tourism. In fact, the industry is the fourth-largest wine exporter in the world, shipping out 760 million liters of wine to countries including France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. One of the key factors contributing to Australia's success as a "New World" wine producer is the formal export and marketing of its wines through Wine Australia.
Australia's wine regions are scattered across the south and southeast, with almost every state boasting its own vineyards. Victoria, for example, is home to an impressive 21 wine regions. Some of the most famous wine regions in Australia include Margaret River, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, and local regions to New South Wales such as Cowra, Southern Highlands, and Mudgee.
Australian winemakers are known for producing a diverse range of grape varieties, with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir being among the most popular. They tend to focus on producing wines that are ripe, fruit-forward, and easy to drink, using modern winemaking techniques and equipment such as stainless steel tanks and temperature-controlled fermentation.
With its bold, fruit-driven flavors and reputation for quality and diversity, Australian wine has become a popular choice for wine lovers around the world. And with such a broad range of wine regions and grape varieties, there's something for every palate to enjoy.
Tasmania
Apart from being the most southerly wine region in Australia, Tasmania has among the coolest growing subregions with the potential to make distinctly different wines than in the rest of the country.
Most well known for cool-climate varietals like Pinot noir and Chardonnay (thus sparkling too), Sauvignon Blanc smaller plantings of Riesling, Cabernet and Pinot Gris (more commonly Pinot labelled Pinot Grigio)
Historically, Tasmania can lay claim to being the founder of both the Victorian and South Australian wine industries as William Henty sailed from Launceston to Portland (in Victoria) in 1834 and planted grape cuttings there. Though not conclusively proven, it's believed that John Hack planted vines in South Australia in 1837, closely followed in 1838 by John Reynell.
Warmer vintages (possibly attributable to global warming) has had positive effects on region's industry, allowing grapes in recent vintages to achieve full phenolic ripeness, making for vibrant wines that have been widely accepted as world class.
About the brand Stefano Lubiana
Steve Lubiana has spent more than 20 years putting Tasmanian wine and biodynamic winemaking and viticulture principles on the map with his Stefano Lubiana label. The fifth generation winemaker is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and progressive in Australia and his wines have earned a reputation as elegant, beautifully balanced and possessing a signature savouriness that has won recognition around the world.
Located at Granton in the Derwent Valley, 20km north of Hobart and overlooking the stunning tidal estuary of the Derwent River, Steve and Monique Lubiana’s approach focuses on producing small quantities of handcrafted and distinctive wines including Chardonnay Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot.
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