DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2025, 97 POINTS.
RAY JORDAN WINE GUIDE 2024, 98 POINTS.
"Let’s cut to the chase. The finest Deep Woods Chardonnay yet. It has it all. Great fruit has been harnessed with whole bunch pressing and fermentation in new and seasoned French oak. Further lees stirring has built in texture, contributing to a thoroughly beautiful, refined mouth feel. Opens with a stone fruit and savoury light lemon curd aromas. Peels off into a palate that reveals more of a struck match and cracked seashell minerality complementing the outstanding fruit concentration. Super wine."
JAMES SUCKLING 2024, 97 POINTS.
"The nose is very flashy and mineral-driven with citrus notes of lime zest, gunsmoke and grapefruit rind. The medium-bodied palate has high-tension acidity with an underlying power, showing notes of lemon peel, shortbread and sea salt. A very classy, tightly wound chardonnay that will unravel for years to come. Exceptional."
ERIN LARKIN, ROBERT PARKER WINE ADVOCATE, NOVEMBER 2024, 96 POINTS.
"I recently tasted these 2023 Chardonnay wines from Deep Woods off the grid—that is to say that no tasting notes were taken, but the impressions were powerful. The 2023 season was one of the most magnificent vintages in Western Australia for its long, mild and dry outlay of growing days. There was some rain at the very end of the harvest period, which did impact some later-ripening reds, but given the year and how it all played out, this was managed well by most. The 2023 Reserve Chardonnay is a true reflection of the year that birthed it; it is elegant, long, coiled and fine, with a palate of concentrated fruit. Most importantly to us, the drinkers, the wine has presence and impact. The acidity is saturating, glassy and crystalline, the fruit is ripe, powerful and restrained, and the phenolic structure that holds it together does so in a pliable, ductile fashion. This is an excellent wine and a wine that I want to drink."
NATIONAL WINE SHOW OF AUSTRALIA 2025... Chardonnay Trophy
Len Evans Memorial Trophy – White Wine of Show
ROYAL MELBOURNE WINE AWARDS 2024...Best Western Australian Chardonnay
ROYAL HOBART WINE SHOW 2024....The Cliff Heard Perpetual Trophy for the Best Chardonnay Dry White Table Wine
ROYAL QUEENSLAND WINE AWARDS 2024...The Fleming Trophy for Best Chardonnay of Show
Best White Table Wine of Show
Gold Medals.....
MARGARET RIVER WINE SHOW 2024
SYDNEY ROYAL WINE SHOW 2024
ROYAL HOBART WINE SHOW 2024
JAMES HALLIDAY AUSTRALIAN CHARDONNAY & CABERNET SAUVIGNON CHALLENGE 2024
