2006 Howard Park Chardonnay Reviews

“From the coolest, most southerly reaches of Western Australia comes a beautifully crafted Chardonnay with pure grapefruit and white peach flavours, perfectly balanced with creamy roast hazelnut and complex leesy flavours. There is a real poise to this wine, which belies its 60% new oak.”

95 Points
Tyson Stelzer, WBM 100 - 01-05-2008
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“Beautifully crafted wine from the rich but not ostentatious nose through the initial tight palate format that opens slowly revealing many layers of flavour ending with a good lingering finish.”

Tony Keys, The Key Review of Wines - 16-04-2008
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“The Howard Park Chardonnay is an exceptional wine from this perfect white wine vintage in the South-West. This is a cracker, with the tart grapefruit mealy aromas an enticing guide to the palate which follows. Beautifully complex and engaging palate with a tight mineral thread and sustained flavour.”

95 Points
Ray Jordan, The West Australian - Fresh Liftout - 10-04-2008
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“Anything from Howard Park jumps straight to the front of the queue...suffice to say HP is the source of some of my favourite wines.Bright and tangy grapefruit, lemon and nectarine fruit supported by fine spicy oak with some yeasty lees characters adding complexity. On the palate intense and toit like a tiger, curled up and waiting to pounce with flinty minerally acidity and a lightly creamy (lees derived) texture. It has explosive flavours of sweet grapefruit, lemon and white peach with yeasty richness and complementary spicy nutty oak. Bursts out on the finish with long stretching aftertaste of mineral, grapefruit and spice. A very fine specimen.”

95 Points
Gary Walsh, www.winorama.com.au - 07-03-2008
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“The fruit comes from the little town of Denmark, which is about as close to the South Pole as vines can get in Western Australia. Biting cold winds careen off the Southern Ocean and produce very fit grapes with hints of fresh mint tips and pine needles. Howard Park has cracked the recipe for Denmark Chardonnay like no one else, and the result is a delicious and eminently age-worthy prize. We know, because we've been avid followers of the wine for years.”

Tyson Stelzer & Matthew Jukes, Taste Food and Wine 2008 - 01-12-2007
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“This is a cracker, with tart grapefruit mealy aromas an enticing guide to the palate that follows. Beautifully complex and engaging palate with a tight mineral thread and stacks of sustained flavour.”

95 Points
Ray Jordan, Western Australia Ray Jordan's Guide to Wine 2008 - 01-11-2007
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