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Hoddles Creek Estate Chardonnay 2024
$26.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Evaluated shortly after bottling, this round, generous and fruit-driven chardonnay marries its ripe, luscious core of grapefruit, lemon, melon and faintly guava-like fruit with restrained creamy vanilla oak and gentle nutty complexity. It’s surprisingly fragrant and lightly buttery, driving long and complete towards a refreshing finish of mouthwatering lemony acidity. It’s certainly going to flesh out further and has everything needed to cellar with considerable style.
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Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2023
$26.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Brightly lit aromas of raspberries, red cherries, musky spices and a whiff of beetroot are backed by floral scents of red rose petals. It’s supple, gentle and medium-bodied, settling down to reveal pleasing red berry/cherry fruits underpinned by a fine, drying backbone of silky tannins and punctuated by a balanced acidity. It will certainly build more richness and depth over time.
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Hoddles Creek Syberia Chardonnay 2022
$72.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A finely crafted and measured chardonnay whose profoundly perfumed and floral bouquet of grapefruit, lemon, white flowers and a whiff of sherbet reveals suggestions of yellow peach, creamy and nutty nuances plus a briney whiff of oyster shell. Its intense core of vibrant fruit iis perfectly offset by its slatey minerality and its dry, almost saline finish. It’s quite outstanding, with a reserved but important contribution from oak and is likely to age beautifully. Today there’s a legion of Australian winemakers trying to achieve by manipulation in the cellar what this wine delivers quite naturally – it’s a pure reflection of its excellent site.