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White Wine by Peter Lehmann from Barossa Valley, Australia. The Peter Lehmann chardonnay philosophy is very much about making a delicate, soft refreshing style of wine with accent on the primary fruit flavours. Colour: A delicate yellow with green tinges at the rim. Bouquet: Soft and restrained on the nose showing good fruit with background notes of new oak, and wild yeast lees complexity. Palate: A very restrained and stylish Chardonnay making for a very refreshing sip. It has delicious freshly cut white peach and smoky fig fruit on the palate and finishes soft and clean. Cellaring: Excellent to sip now, and with careful cellaring will continue to develop in the bottle for a further four to five years.

White Wine by Yalumba from Barossa Valley, Australia. The Wild Ferment Chardonnay features the use of a natural or wild yeast ferment for all batches of juice, where the juice is encouraged to ferment with the indigenous yeasts present on the grape skins from the vineyard. The many individual yeasts each participate in some way to build layers of complexity and finesse into the wine. Further palate structure is built through extended lees contact and regular lees stirring. The fine-grained French barriques have also contributed an additional lift, fragrance and finesse to the wine. Yalumba Eden Valley Wild Ferment Chardonnay 2006 is pale golden straw in color with a bright rim. Creamy almond nougat and toasted cashew aromas are threaded with bright citrus peel and white nectarines. The palate is brimming with creamy stone-fruit flavors with a crisp lemony brightness, fine toasty oak nuances and a refreshing finish.