Chardonnay 2018 Art Series - Leeuwin Estate

"This 2018 vintage is the big guy. It was the season where all the stars aligned for viticulturists and winemakers in Margaret River, with good yields, climatic conditions and quality. The 2018 Art Series Chardonnay today is entering its sixth year from harvest, and for me, this is when the Gingin clone drinking window starts to open. However, this wine was great from the first, and it is both ripe and powerful, tight and long. You get salted peach, wild amounts of exotic spice (Indian in the main, but a splay of Marrakesh marketplace as well), saffron and turmeric, galangal and white pepper. In the mouth, there is roasted fennel seeds and shaved fennel too. It's a ripping wine, kaleidoscopic and swirling—magic in its way. "

Source: Robert Parker