by Andrew Chalk
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This Chardonnay is firmly in the New World idiom with new French oak and tropical fruit in the nose. Pineapple and mango in the mouth. Notable body and a strident and welcome phenolic backbone. Little wonder the finish, led by the fruit, is so long-lived.
Sample.