Stefano Lubiana Estate Chardonnay 2022 750ml

Lubiana Collina Chardonnay comes from the best barrels on the family-owned vineyard at Granton. They only produce Lubiana Collina Chardonnay in the years where quality is so high that the missing fruit won't detract from the Estate blend. An ideal that I heartily endorse. Smelling Lubiana Collina Chardonnay will nett you caramel, grilled nuts, a hint of honey, fine oak, citrus rind, and green apple. It is raw and primary and gorgeous. On the palate, you taste sweet stone fruit, tangy peach, toast, flint/match-stick. Lubiana Collina Chardonnay is supple, completely in balance and perhaps just a hint short. I loved what I saw on the first night with Lubiana Collina Chardonnay. The second night open it perhaps lacked a bit of freshness. What this means is that you should probably share it with enough people to finish it on the first night. I wouldn't age Lubiana Collina Chardonnay for very long, I feel it is at or near its peak now.