Ossa Chardonnay 2021

Light, bright yellow colour, youthful and sparkling fresh; the bouquet has a dominant note of almond meal as well as toasted cashew and walnut, with malt and milk-chocolate additions. Grapefruit comes to the fore the longer the wine is in the glass. The palate is soft and rounded, full and rich in the mouth, with lemon/citrus filling in the back-palate and aftertaste, leaving a refreshing and vital after-impression. Delicious and appetising, intense and long. There is concentration and complexity in spadefuls. Prodigious palate length, too. Truly an exciting chardonnay.

Chardonnay clones I10V1 and P58 pressed to seasoned large-format French oak, fermented wild, 10 months élevage on lees. Flush with stone and citrus fruits, sheathed in soft spice along with hints of almond blossom, crushed stone, a whiff of struck flint and a touch of oyster shell. Excellent tension and clarity with a tautly stretched canvas of fruit, crystalline acidity and a softly spiced exit showing ample power, drive and grace.