**97pts** Chardonnay, Giant Steps, `Sexton Vineyard` Yarra Valley, Australia

• – “Stone fruits, roasted hazelnut, tightly coiled with saline finish.” — Philip Rich, 97 pts (Halliday, July 2025)

Tamlyn Currin, Victoria`s cool Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, Jancis Robinson.

17.5 points
Broader than Tarraford, it's still a wine that dances and sparkles, throwing brilliant edges into a thrilling jubilation of flavours and complexity. Quinine, bergamot, quince soaked in blood-orange juice. Galangal, salty pickled lemon. There is a sweet note of freshly churned butter that slicks in at first under a tumbling halo of citrus flowers and then shines the finish into a creamy slick of moreishness.