Zilzie work to an uncompromising pursuit of the right soil for each grape, they've formed a close bond with many of the nation's finest growers. Yarra Valley is Victoria's oldest wine region, renowned for producing sophisticated Chardonnay wines of the highest order. Zilzie have assembled parcels of the best fruit to compose an elegant and refined example. Compelling nectarine flavours are complemented by a subtle creamy texture and refreshing minerality. Match Zilzie with chicken caesar and all good luncheon faire or a crispy skin barramundi for dinner.

A splendid, easy drinking Chardonnay, by one of our nation's most accomplished winemakers, Yellow Tail is designed for immediate enjoyment. A regimen of luxurious winemaking techniques are employed, maturation on yeast lees, malolactic ferments and oak treatments are all part of the program to impart creamy, nougat flavours, add richness and balance the acidity. Ideal alongside the finest faire, [yellow tail] will perfectly compliment fresh seafoods and meat salad, game and poultry, cheeses or pasta. Serve nicely chilled, drink and enjoy.

One of Victoria's most reliable producers of distinctive regional wines, Yarra Ridge design a crisp, golden delicious Chardonnay with prominent varietal fruit flavour, fine structure, persistence and length. Yarra Ridge was an early instigator of the fruit forward Yarra Valley Chardonnay style and has been a staple on fine dining menus across Australia for decades. Ongoing developments in viticultural management and refinements in the vinification have achieved a consistent wine of character and charm to accompany all good faire.

Yalumba are proud of their tradition in taking a holistic, environmentally conscientious approach to viticulture. Ever since establishment by Samuel Smith in 1849, the priority has been a focus on responsible land management. The name Yalumba is in reference to this fundamental principle, an indigenous word meaning all the land around. The label of Y Series is adorned by a Cape Barren Goose, one of many endangered species which have found sanctuary within the refuge of Yalumba vineyards.

On the rolling slopes of Xanadu, vines flourish in the rich, free draining gravel soils, fed by an abundant supply of pristine water and sheltered by forests of magnificent marri trees. The site was chosen for its propensity to experience near perfect ripening conditions, beautiful indian summers with cool nights and clear warm days. The vines deliver an exceptional quality of Chardonnay, which Xanadu have fashioned into a generous, forward drinking wine. Natural ferments are encouraged, lees battonage is essential, infusing added complexity and charm.

Wolf Blass have been producing many of Australia's finest white wines for over thirty years, receiving thousands of awards at international competitions. Their highly specialized Chardonnay vineyards are amongst the estate's most precious assets, the fruit from these choice sites translates into wines that are generously flavoured and always satisfying. Yellow Label delivers the right balance of Chardonnay orchard fruit flavours as supported by delicately integrated oak. Drink in its youth to enjoy the bright fresh flavours.

Designed to be early drinking and refreshing, in a clean unwooded styling, Red Label defines the consistency of quality for which Wolf Blass is renowned. Crisp and refreshing with the tantalizing melon, stonefruit and mango flavours of fine Chardonnay, the absence of any oak allows the unadulterated varietal characters to shine through, fresh and lively with good weight of fruit and excellent length of palate.

The uniquely Australian mix of Chardonnay and Semillon in vibrant drink now styling. Wolf Blass can offer an appealing classic dry white wine that's slightly more approachable and satisfying than most. Whilst the unique varietal expressions of each grape are present and distinct, they combine into a delightfully tight palate, beautifully balanced to complement each other. Superb as a sipping wine and excellent with food, a good all rounder that's fruit driven yet refreshingly dry, enhanced by a suppleness of creamy oak and crisp minerality.

By the most accomplished maker of satisfying and accessible white wines. Wolf Blass drinks beautifully as a refreshing aperitif style, it also matches traditional white wine faire perfectly. A lightly oaked Chardonnay wine with a forward drinking palate of healthy, crisp and clean fruit. Creamy with a touch of oak, endowed by varietal citrus, stonefruits and cashew, the Chardonnay of choice, to be enjoyed lightly chilled in its youth.

Exclusively Adelaide Hills Chardonnay? You bet, it's a Wolf and it's nothing but the finest, in a modern adults only styling. Wolf Blass captures the affinity between Adelaide's Hills and Chardonnay, fashioning a vital wine with crunchy fruit characters and solid structure. High altitudes and a cool climate make Adelaide Hills the ideal location for Chardonnay, where the grapes develop elegant flavours while retaining cleansing natural acidity. Extended time resting on yeast lees adds creamy textures and exciting mouthfeel.

Ever since inaugural release, Eaglehawk have represented value and reliability. Crafted by an award winning team, Eaglehawk remains consistent to the Wolf Blass traditions of quality, consistency and style. In 1966 Wolf Blass named his nascent winery Bilyara, the Aboriginal word for eaglehawk, to this day an image that's synonymous with Wolf Blass. Fully ripened harvests of Chardonnay, sourced off the finest vineyards, are assembled into a wine that's the perfect accompaniement to all occasions and will flatter your favourite cuisine.

The Wither Hills Rarangi, Benmorven and St Leonards Chardonnay vineyards, along with the eminent Fairleigh and Kerseley properties, are strategically sited on some of the most opportune sites around Wairau Valley. Night time temperatures can be cool, which is ideal for flavour development. The aim is to produce a structured wine with mouthfilling flavours, distinctively Marlborough, expressing the region's charm. Barrel fermented and matured in French oak, drinking well on release, Wither Hills will reward all devotees of fine New Zealand Chardonnay.

Half Chardonnay, the balance in Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris, this is not the first time that such an unlikely cépage of fruit have been assembled into a single wine. The results are always revitalizing and delish, Witchmount can rely on the finest parcels of fragrant white grapes to achieve an engagingly aromatic wine of lithe guava, peanut brittle and lychee perfumes. Have it chilled to serve alongside pork and fennel lasagna or a nice smoked trout, the stylish mix of grapes make a wine of juicy textural grip and crisp natural acidity.

Scrubby Rise is a significant part of the Wirra Wirra estate vineyards. Originally bushland, it's now anything but scrubby, it does however continue to produce wines which rise to every occasion. Formerly known as Sexton's Acre, this Chardonnay has always been a defacto member of the Scrubby Rise range. Refreshingly unoaked, it's for all those who like their wine to reflect the vineyard, not the trees, just a celebration of natural Chardonnay fruit character.

The quiet achievers in Yarra Valley Chardonnay, De Bortoli have been husbanding the choicest sites for decades, all the while training their vines to yield harvests of increasingly higher quality fruit. Windy Peak can now make available to fine wine enthusisats with an eye for value, a quality of Chardonnay without peer. For all adherents of fine and approachable new world Chardonnay, Windy Peak is richly structured, a regimen of extravagant vinification techniques contribute exceptional balance to the finished wine.

The accumulated vinicultural experience and history at Wild Oats is truly impressive. Mudgee is home to some of the oldest Chardonnay rootstock in Australia and boasts a long history of producing outstanding, award winning white wines. A pure varietal Chardonnay from grapes grown to the Oatley estate vineyards at Mudgee, crafted to a forward drinking, modern styling, full bodied yet crisp, with lifted citrus and melon flavours. Wild Oats is a contemporary take on the style, where oak supports rather than dominates the well defined fruit.

All White Box wines are made from grapes grown to estate vineyards within Heathcote and Yarra Valley. The fruit is always selected from the most appropriate site depending on the nature and variety of wine. The estate's Chardonnay is crafted from batches of the best Yarra Valley fruit. The cooler climate of the Yarra Valley lends itself to the production of Chardonnay, producing a more intensely flavoured and expressive wine. Structure and finesse, well balanced acid brings the natural fruit sweetness to a long, clean finish of exceptional length, taught and crisp.

West Cape Howe own and operate vineyards throughout the expansive viticultural precincts of Australia's largest winegrowing region. It is here at Great Southern that the balmy West Australian growing season and salubrious mix of terroirs, form mesoclimes which are heaven sent for good wine, while permutating into a diversity which favour specific grapes and styles. From choice blocks on the Russell Road Vineyard at Frankland River, a golden buttery, oak fermented Chardonnay, engaging as aperitif and perfect match to fine gourmandise.

Margaret River makes bold, flavoursome Chardonnay wines, offering a weight of fruit that drinks brilliantly without being aged or exposed to oak. A conspicuous wine show competition champion, judiciously medium bodied, fragrant with grapefruits and honey dew, kept vital and fresh in modern unwooded styling. The profound richness of natural Chardonnay fruit is upfront and central, lingering at the finish on the toothsome varietal characters of fresh fresh cut melons, tangerines and peach.

Water Wheel is situated at Bridgewater -On- Loddon under the shadow of the historic water powered Water Wheel Flour Mill, surrounded by hectares of thriving vines. One of the Bendigo region's most eminent farming dynasties acquired the estate in the late 1980s and embarked on a program of planting vines, installing new facilities, employing a highly skilled winemaking team and introducing a major new oak regimen. Dividends have arrived in the form of conspicuous award winning wines, meritorious accolades and superlative Chardonnay.

Valley of the Giants is an ancient forest just outside of Denmark in Australia's deep southwest, home of the enormous indigenous Red Tingle tree. The magic of this ancient forest comes alive at night as local fauna meander around the cyclopean flora, some of which are sixteen metres in circumference. The Fifth Leg Devils Lair team know about white wine, earmarking the most lively parcels of Chardonnay, Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc to be vinified into a Crisp Dry White. Enjoy with chicken caesar and fresh seafood, scallops or calamari.

Tyrrell's Old Winery range is named after an historic Hunter Valley facility which was built in 1858. Tyrrell are famous for the pioneering of Chardonnay in Australia, being the first to commercially produce the varietal as a pure wine in 1971, the inaugural release of Australian Chardonnay. Tyrrell's were also one of the first to import small French oak barrels into Australia for the style. Old Winery continues Tyrrell's tradition of consistently producing the finest Chardonnay, wines which over deliver in terms of generosity and charm.

Ever since a mythological deluge in 1993, the Tyrrell winemaking team has embarked on an argosy to detect and apprehend the illusory Lost Block. Stylistically fashioned to remain true to the promise of fruit laden, easy to drink wines, Chardonnay from the Hunter Valley and McLaren Vale have been harvested, crushed and chilled, before a hasty transfer to the Tyrrell wineworks at Pokolbin, for vinification into a fresh and crisp, revitalising wine.

The McWilliams team are masters at striking perfect balance, while walking the tightrope between excellence and approachability. Harvests of choice Yarra Valley Chardonnay are treated to a course of the most extravagant vinification techniques, infusing the wine with opulent complexity and enriching the palate. The luxury of barrel ferments in French oak and two months lees stirring battonage, are followed by ageing in a high proportion of new French barriques, contributing classic old world characters of boulangèrie, savoury and grain.

A delicately oaked Eden Valley Chardonnay, produced in small quantities by one of the Barossa'a great winemaking dynasties. Barrel aged, it sees an extended period on lees to give a more savoury flavour, achieving a round, voluptuous body.

The best Chardonnay always exhibit conspicuous balance. Those fortunate enough to have countenanced the wines of Tallarook will understand why Terra Felix are so well received. The objective is to create a robust style of Chardonnay which can be enjoyed in its youth, without evolving too rapidly while in bottle. A measure of oak is perceptible yet inseparable from the fruit, characters derived from vinification contribute complexity without dominating.

Fine wine enthusiasts know that they can trust Taylor to deliver superb quality table wines year after year. The dedicated family of eminent Clare Valley winemakers spare no expense or effort to make it happen. Promised Land is build around a backbone of estate grown fruit, vinified to a refreshing modern style with soild structure and excellent palate weight. The pure lifted Chardonnay chic, without the influence of oak, are perfect to enjoy alongside good food and cheery company.

From fruit harvested off estate vines planted to the finest Chardonnay growing terroirs in Valley Clare. Taylor continue to claim a staggering weight of accolades and awards at national competitions, much of it for their superlative white wines. There's never any expense or effort spared by Taylor in a pursuit of the highest quality fruit, employing a combination of old and new world viticulture. A seamless palate of clean varietal fruit framed by judicious oak, attractive melon flavours, nuttyness and spice, Taylor get their Clare Valley Chardonnay just right.

In South Australia, the best sites for growing wine grapes were originally sold off in eighty acre lots. Bill Taylor planted his first eighty acres of vine to some of the best Terra rossa soils within the Clare Valley circa 1969, naming his original block the Eighty Acres.

Victorian Chardonnay is known for its affable nature and easy to appreciate apple fruit characters. Tahbilk have been one of the nation's most successful purveyors of Australian white wine since well before Federation. The fruit of their distinguished old vineyards was at the very fore of the resurgence of interest in Victorian table wines during the 1970s. A crystalline textured, beautifully rounded Chardonnay with an elegance of fine oak, seamlessly in support of its crisp, Goulburn Valley fruit palate.

The unique terrains upon which the Stoneleigh Vineyards lie, impart distinctive qualities into the wines. Located on the northern side of Wairau Valley, in close proximity to Marlborough's main river, the growers have established sites on deep, infertile gravel beds, covered by smooth sunstones. These polished stones reflect the sun's heat during the day, assisting ripening, whilst radiating heat throughout the cool of night. True to the Stoneleigh style, this classic, elegant Chardonnay delivers bright varietal fruit and captures the essence of Marlborough.

The Stepping Stone Padthaway Chardonnay shows distinct regional characters and represents fantastic value. The complex wines emerging from the Padthaway vineyards are acknowledged as some of Australia's finest. Positioned at the gateway to the Limestone Coast, the region is characterised by vast views of vines and majestic eucalypts. Deep straw with green hues, aromas of lemon, lime and tropical fruit precede a fresh and lively palate. A creamy, nutty finish makes this wine an ideal choice with pasta in cream sauces and chicken stuffed with camembert and prosciutto.

It was Karl Seppelt who established the greater Henty region to viticulture in 1964. Burgundian varietals perform brilliantly under the cool ripening, maritime influenced climes, all white grapes excel. Originally chosen on the virtues of a growing season and terroir which favoured the production of cool climate sparkling wines, to rival the nation's best, Seppelt's Drumborg Vineyard has delivered vintages of the most remarkable Chardonnay. Textural, complex and rich, the Chardonnay of choice to accompany white pudding, milk veal or suckling pork.

Secret Stone has followed up its runaway success at Sauvignon Blanc with a sensational sequel of Marlborough Chardonnay. Quality of fruit is the key, Marlborough grows remarkably good white wine grapes, the Secret Stone team retain access to the best vineyards. A brisk vinification into a seamless post modern styling matches the excellence of fruit with maximum drinkability factor. The aperitif of choice and perfect with good food, pair it off with white pasta recipes, scallops or chicken over tossed papardelle, crème fraîche and dill.

Mount Bellarine, on which Scotchmans Hill is located, is an extinct volcano where thick, black, moisture retentive and fertile volcanic soils of black clay with basalt subsoil lend individual and intense flavours to the wines. Chardonnay grapes grown here exhibit penetrating characters of stonefruit and melon with firm acid structures and crisp textures. Scotchmans Hill also retain vineyards in the King Valley where the cooler climes produce a softer, rich style of Chardonnay with vivid expressions of yellow peach, melons and aromatic tropical fruits.

A selection of the finest Chardonnay from Schild's extensive holdings in the Barossa, around a backbone of fruit grown to the original Three Springs Farm and a further component from the precious Schild estate property in the hundred of Moorooroo. Demonstrating the excellence which can be gained from vines planted to a higher altitude, closely managed for a harvest of lower yields. Dominated by an intriguing mix of tropical and temperate orchard characters, a pure expression of Barossa Chardonnay, in a refreshingly fruit driven, unwooded styling.

Sarantos Chardonnay is a wine specifically designed to complement and reflect the easy-going, relaxed lifestyle Australian's enjoy today. The criterion for putting this wine together was that it must have universal appeal and above all must be easy to drink. Fresh and approachable, it features titillatingly pleasant characters of melon, lychee and peach. Whether Sarantos is enjoyed with friends at Al Fresco styled cafes, or whether it be a quiet night at home relaxing, it's a Chardonnay that's the perfect partner to any occasion.

The Thorn-Clarke family can be proud of a long history, growing the Barossa's finest Chardonnay, the best batches are retained for their own labels. Sandpiper sits lightly oaked, retaining a refreshing fruit character as it undergoes extended yeast maturation. A delicious Chardonnay dominated by nuances of white peach and tropical fruits over a nutty, lengthy palate. Sandpiper makes a stylish aperitif and is exquisite alongside good food, a personable wine of classic Eden Valley charm, creamy with a touch of mineral before a crisp, cleansing finish.

Sandalford are one of the nation's elder winemaking estates, with a tradition which dates back to the 1840s. The Element range is styled for modern palates, an assemblage of Verdelho and Chenin Blanc, Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay, much from the Swan Valley, an area that's well suited to aromatic white grapes. The main influences are the warm, dry summers and revitalizing maritime winds from the Indian Ocean. West Australian sunshine in a bottle, the wine of choice to accompany salt & pepper squid or freshly tossed caesar.

Sandalford's award winning offerings reflect contemporary lifestyles, always fashioned with today's tastes and trends in mind. Element reveals fully why Chardonnay has found a wonderful new home within the blamy maritime terroirs of the Australian west coast. The nose is reminiscent of stonefruits and citrus, the palate offers ripe peach and melon characters, a mouth filling creamy texture and fine, refreshing finish.

Bilbul wineworks in the Riverina produce many of Australia's most popular wines, national pleasures that are shared and enjoyed around the world. Harvests of Semillon have been assembled with components of good Chardonnay, select parcels are given a term of malolactic to soften the edges, creating texture and imparting charm, others are treated to an extended lees contact, adding texture and contributing mouthfeel. An engaging wine in adults only styling, complex and gently oaked, leesy and dry.

Sacred Hill has graced the tables of royalty and movie stars, claiming a litany of awards and sharing accolades with some of Australia's most cherished wines. A fruit driven Chardonnay style with great texture and superb balance, crisp acidity and zesty citrus stonefruit characters balanced by a subtle touch of Fench oak. A wonderful partner to all seafoods or freshly tossed chicken caesar.

Diamond Label has remained a staple around restaurant tables throughout Australia for decades. Everyone can appreciate it's consistency of quality, seamless palate, lively fruit and easy to enjoy styling. The bottle's diamond shaped footprint is a reflection of Rosemount's distinctive label, which has served as a beacon to lovers of good wine. A Chardonnay which can lay claim to being the most popular offering within it's range each and every year, it remains the first choice for today's relaxed lifestyle, refreshing, universally appealing and completely satisfying.

Since the 1970s Rosemount has been one of Australia's leading labels, producing wines that reflect a dedication to quality, innovation and style. A new chapter has now opened on the Rosemount story, with the release of Bright & Aromatic. A fashionable and exciting blend of amicable white varietals, expressing the minerality of Semillon as it harmonizes beautifully with the riper orchard fruit flavours of Chardonnay, assembled into a refreshing wine with enough appeal to sip as an aperitif or pair off with your favourite faire.