Few Australian producers occupy a more venerated position when it comes to Chardonnay than Beechworth’s Giaconda. Giaconda Estate Chardonnay is arguably Australia’s greatest white wine. For those wanting to experience Giaconda without the $100 plus price tag, Nantua provides an excellent insight into the house style.
Sourced from estate grown fruit and grapes sourced from neighbouring vineyards, Nantua is principally Chardonnay, with a touch of Roussanne thrown in for good measure. Like the Giaconda Estate Chardonnay, it is a wine that is generous in flavour. In some respects, it is a slightly traditional Australian Chardonnay, with generous stonefruit and pear intermingled with forward nutty oak.
Nantua is a powerful and full flavoured wine well suited to richer seafood and white meat dishes. While it may lack some of the finesse and structure of its more prestigious sibling, it is nonetheless a very good quality Australian Chardonnay.
2009 GIACONDA NANTUA
Producer: Giaconda
Variety: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2009
Region: Beechworth, Victoria
Alcohol: 13.0%
Closure: Screw cap
Retail Price: $50.00
Date tasted: 26 October 2014
Tasting Note:
Bright lemon yellow with golden hints. Inviting nose of white peach, nectarine, fig, honey and nutty oak. At the fuller end of medium bodied, round and moutfilling, lots of flavour; nougat, cashew, pear and stonefruit. Classy oak is very well integrated and lends complexity. Generous depth of flavour and lovely complexity. Slightly ‘old school’ in feel, but that’s no bad thing.
Score: 17/20
Sourced from estate grown fruit and grapes sourced from neighbouring vineyards, Nantua is principally Chardonnay, with a touch of Roussanne thrown in for good measure. Like the Giaconda Estate Chardonnay, it is a wine that is generous in flavour. In some respects, it is a slightly traditional Australian Chardonnay, with generous stonefruit and pear intermingled with forward nutty oak.
Nantua is a powerful and full flavoured wine well suited to richer seafood and white meat dishes. While it may lack some of the finesse and structure of its more prestigious sibling, it is nonetheless a very good quality Australian Chardonnay.
2009 GIACONDA NANTUA
Producer: Giaconda
Variety: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2009
Region: Beechworth, Victoria
Alcohol: 13.0%
Closure: Screw cap
Retail Price: $50.00
Date tasted: 26 October 2014
Tasting Note:
Bright lemon yellow with golden hints. Inviting nose of white peach, nectarine, fig, honey and nutty oak. At the fuller end of medium bodied, round and moutfilling, lots of flavour; nougat, cashew, pear and stonefruit. Classy oak is very well integrated and lends complexity. Generous depth of flavour and lovely complexity. Slightly ‘old school’ in feel, but that’s no bad thing.
Score: 17/20
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