Cloudburst Chardonnay 2021

The balance and depth to this is fantastic! Medium to full body with a density and phenolic tension that is wonderfully integrated and creates a harmonious and rather sophisticated palate. Some salted caramel to the cooked apple and light mango flavors. It’s stays with you but it’s the center palate that impresses. Creamy texture. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Quite a herbal fragrance and scented nose, toasted bread, dried herbs, salted crackers, chamomile, white flowers and dried lemon peel. Fresh and forward on the palate, this has a crystalline purity to the lemon and lime fruit - so clean, precise and well worked - but with a buttery element that gives weight and texture to the palate while the acidity keeps things lifted and the spice drives from start to finish. Feels a little constricted at the moment, not overly friendly, more serious and knitted - gourmet - but there's appealing minerality on the final flavour, salty stones and white pepper. A great wine from Will Berliner from 1.25 hectares farmed biodynamically in Margaret River.