Harvests of Chardonnay are collated from some of the finest vineyards, to be vinified and assembled by the Four Sisters team into a refreshing young wine. Grapes displaying peach and melon characteristics form the backbone, while parcels offering vegetal and minerality add to the complexity, masterfully harmonized into a lively fruit driven Chardonnay wine, the perfect luncheon white.

Western Australia's Chardonnays are typically full-bodied and rich, fig and cashew flavoured, Medocy styled whites, thanks to the maritime winds and Euro-climate of the region. Sourced from premium Western Australian vineyards, Fishers Circle embodies the style and character the region is famous for. A slightly wooded, sumptuously fruited, and easy to enjoy robust white, the Fishers Circle will pull you in with its casual Western Australian elegance, so go on, take the bait and enjoy a Fishers Circle Chardonnay while you nibble.

Evans & Tate focus on maximising the quality of their fruit, through a careful selection of site and choice of varietal clone, to produce wines with elegance and intensity, stylish and refined. Metricup Road is made from fruit grown to vineyards located in the central and southern reaches of Margaret River. Assembling fruit from strategically located terroirs constructs a regionally articulate style of Chardonnay, which blends the concentrated stone fruit flavours of central Margaret River, with the finer, more mineral citrus and tight palate structure of the south.

Discovering an unoaked Chardonnay with full palate and fine textures can be a pleasant surprise.

There really is a Devil's Corner and it's a section of Tamar River, very near Kayena Vineyard. The lee is a calm area of refuge for sailors away from the potentially wild waters of Whirlpool Reach to the south, it has been used as such for over two hundred years. Devils Corner are Tasmanian wines of the highest order, reflecting the natural variations engendered by climate and soil. Crafted from East Coast and Tamar Valley fruit, a Chardonnay wine of beautifully preserved Tasmanian bucolic charm, to accompany creamy risotto and the freshest fishes.

De Bortoli can lay claim to a tradition of compelling Chardonnay wines. Their award winning efforts have made an essential contribution to the evolution of Chardonnay in Australia. Grapes for Vat 7 are selected from good vineyards which can yield the quality of fruit characterized by the luscious nectarine flavours that are so central to the style. A course of barrel ferments, malolactic and exposure to sedimentery yeast lees in oak makes for a richly textured Chardonnay wine with good colour, creamy textures and extravagant palate richness.

The De Iuliis property along Broke Road at Pokolbin is a picture of pastoral idyll, spotted gums and mallee eucalypts surround the tranquil vines, breathtaking vistas of Brokenback range contribute to a mesoclime which encourages harvests of exquisite Chardonnay, defined by rich esters and refined acidity. Small yields and hand picked grapes, extravagant French oak treatments and a priority on preserving the textural integrity of a splendid wine, an astonishingly engaging experience for savvy white wine appellants and the most adroit Chardonnay enthusiasts.

You'll see plenty of olive trees alongside the d'Arenberg roadsides, flourishing among the vines. McLaren Vale is littered with olive groves which were planted by the first settlers. While neighbouring table grape growers consider olive trees a nuisance, local winemakers are thankful for the bittersweet nuances which the tiny green stonefruits impart to the wine. Chester Osborn determines the critical time of picking his Chardonnay, which is treated to wild ferments and lees stirring, for a rich textural wine with savoury aromas and good palate complexity.

The effect of Noble Rot or Botrytis cinerea is to make the skin of grapes porous, and given the correct weather, shrivel. The wrinkled grapes are intensely sweet and full of character, producing wine with a wide array of fruit characters. Ever the prankster, Chester Osborn has stepped outside the usual sticky suspects of Riesling and Semillon to make a Chardonnay Semillon blend. It may look like a normal sticky, but look again, sticky Chardonnay can be majestic, often difficult to achieve in the cool climate of Adelaide Hills.

Good growers know that to produce exceptional wines, they must start with top quality fruit. The scale of operations for most Yarra Valley vineyards borders on the boutique, making impracticable the automation which other regions enjoy. Hands on viticulture and a reliance on the vagaries of mother nature may be traditionalist and old hat, but close contact with the vines yields the finest fruit. A Chardonnay that's elegant with exuberant aromas of stonefruit and vanilla, closely followed by a buttery palate of cashews and citrus, melon and peach.

A luxury Chardonnay crafted at one of the Mclaren Vale's oldest operating wineries. Originally intended for labelling under one of Australia's most internationally recognized brands and destined for consumption by the most discerning Chardonnay enthusiasts. An intensely flavoured wine with a complex and engaging palate that belies its packaging and pricepoint, it carries the essential expression of premium McLaren Vale fruit, fashioned to an extravagant vinification and cellared at the winery for extended ageing and development.

A well balanced Chardonnay wine with ample palate texture, crisp grapefruit acidity and soft varietal stonefruit characters by one of the most distinguished winemakers in Hunter Valley. The vines were planted to soils and aspects where the excellent growing seasons and favourable ripening conditions yield grapes exhibiting splendid concentration. Nature has played a big part in contributing to the flavour profile of this generously proportioned Chardonnay, decidedly fruit driven with richly textured palate and lovely, lingering clean finish.

Charles Sturt University Winery is an integral part of Australia's leading wine and food science syllabus, at the forefront of international best practice viticulture and vinification techniques. The winery focuses on excellence, using state of the art technology without sacrificing tradition. An immensely satisfying Chardonnay from grapes grown to the University vineyard, punching far above it's weight and representing peerless value as it's exempt from statutory wine tax.

Chardonnay grown to the cooler nethers of southwest Australia can stand alone, unwooded and unoaked, showing lifted aromas of pineapple and melon, nectarines and peach. Vines are stimulated by the unique maritime influence of the coastal regions into yielding grapes which express the hallmark characters that we know and love about west coast Chardonnay. Debut makes the grade, not least for it's vitality and freshness in a vivacious fruit driven styling, but also for its generosity of flavour, contemporary styling and exquisite balance.

Brooks takes its name from the Chapman Brook Vineyard, established 1994 in the cooler southern half of Margaret River, a main source of Chardonnay for Cape Mentelle. This idyllic location, when combined with a restrained use of oak, best captures the freshness and vibrancy of Chardonnay, producing an appealing, generously flavoured fruit driven style, expressing pristine varietal characters, great concentration and intensity while exhibiting splendid balance.

The team at Bullant are very proud of their Langhorne Creek Chardonnay, a forward drinking style, picked off a single block of superior vines and crafted by the Folletts of Lake Breeze. Subtley framed by a judicious measure of seasoned oak, its moreish pineapple grapefuit character makes the perfect match to west coast marron, the enduring seafood mornay or piquant, salt and pepper squid.

This unwooded dry white wine is an assemblage of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio. Brown Brothers can lay claim to debuting unique wine styles, Everton succeeds in fully integrating three heretofore unmatched varietals. The Chardonnay imparts body and length while the Sauvignon Blanc contributes lifted, herbaceous aromas and vibrant acidity. A small proportion of Pinot Grigio is added to contribute a nice savoury background. The three grapes combine into a complete wine thats greater than the sum of the parts.

Chardonnay has been central to the Blue Pyrenees program, since the noble Maisons of Heidsieck and Krug settled on the Grampians, to create new world wines which could articulate the affinity between Victoria's western districts and the premier precincts of France. Ostensibly planted as the essential backbone for the finest sparkling, the brow raising matchstick style of incisive, contemplative Chardonnay, textural with delicately oaked peachyness, barrel ferment autolysis, persistent grapefuit piquancy and lingering mineral crispness.

The benchmark in Langhorne Creek Chardonnay, vinified from the choicest parcels grown to some of the nation's most fertile soils. Whilst Bleasdale is steeped in the history of Australian red winemaking, it maintains a flair for exuberant whites. A dry, lightly wooded style showing attractive fresh lingering flavours of pear juice, melons and peach. A jubilant white to enjoy lively and young, alongside your favourite chicken, white meat and seafood recipes for maximum enjoyment.