Vasse Felix Chardonnay 2014

Professional Ratings

• 96 James Suckling
  This is really fantastic with a deep and dense palate of dried lemon, apple and white peach. Fruity yet so structured. Great finish. Need time still to show it all but what a white. Screw cap.
• 93 Wine & Spirits
  Virginia Willcock selects this wine from the top-performing blocks of the Holmes a Court family vineyards, three sites in Wilyabrup on gravelly loam over clay. She ferments it in barriques without added yeast, and does not encourage malolactic, sustaining enough brisk freshness to handle the richness she’s attained through nine months of lees stirring. Willcock’s masterful work with oak is apparent in the reductive aspects in this wine, the kind of sulfury minerality you might find in a young Burgundy. Here it points up the cool fruit flavors and a salty note in the finish. The texture is broad and substantial, then the wine narrows and tightens, lasting on an umami savor of roasted veal and brighter hints of flowers.
• 92 Wine Spectator
  Stylish, with a dried floral note weaving in and out of the green apple, lemon and melon flavors. Shows focused acidity and a long finish.