Pooley Wines - Cooinda Vale Vineyard Chardonnay - 2023

Curiously, perhaps, it takes me about five to ten minutes to taste a wine, and write a review. Or at least that’s the case for a wine I have no questions about, where the quality is so clear, that the fingers fairly fly over the keyboard. Let it roll, baby roll. It has a fair amount of flinty struck match, pink grapefruit, white nectarine, white flower and fennel tip perfume, cashew and spicy cinnamon oak. It lights up the palate, it crackles with energy, but also has some umami flavours, a light chicken broth, oatmeal, that kind of thing, has a certain juiciness too, and offers plenty of salted cashew and stony things on a finish of superb length. It’s such a good and interesting expression of Chardonnay. Tight, yes, but delivers heaps of flavour. Unreal. 96 Points - Wine Front