To make first class Chardonnay, Richmond Grove selects the most superior quality fruit. It is while ripening in the vineyard, that the finest parcels of Chardonnay are identified. Good varietal fruit character remains up front in the finished wine, attractive citrus and fig flavours are perfectly balanced by soft lemon acidity, all supported by luxurious creamy textures from the partial malolactic. A measure of toasty vanilla oak adds structure and length while infusing rich complexity.

The Shire of Nillumbik is steeped in history, dotted with villages and towns, each with its own special magic. An exclusively estate grown wine, the eight acre Redbox Vineyard was originally planted to Chardonnay in the 1980s, it's mature vines yield an elegant, creamy style. Delightful peach and stone fruit aromas are supplemented by tropical fruit characters, making Redbox the ideal accompaniment to richer white meat and cheese pasta recipes.

Long Paddock is named for the early Australian drovers, inflicted with cruel and regular droughts, they faced a long march with their stumbling, starving stock to roam the bush roads and tracks in the desperate hope of finding food and water. Redbank source harvests of Chardonnay from the finest Victorian vineyards, sites which are ideally slow ripening, characterised by cool climes and rich fertile soils. High country Chardonnay at its finest, a match to prawns in creamy grumbo accompanied by your favourite style of rice.

A mostly Chardonnay wine with smaller components of complimenting white varietal grapes grown to some of the finest vineyards, including the Davey family's own. Red Knot brings together the best of McLaren Vale, big bold wines which offer consistency, alluring bouquets and a stylish palate with good varietal character. Fashioned to give white wine lovers what they want, the Shingleback team has constructed a generously flavoured classic dry white in vibrant fruit driven styling, completely unoaked and innately suited to contemporary Al fresco cuisine.

Harvests of Chardonnay grown to the undulating aspects of Mornington, elevated cooler knolls and warmer northerly sites, are greatly influenced by the invigorating maritime climes of Port Phillip Bay. Red Hill Estate construct a brisk and refreshing style of sub-regional Chardonnay, assembling several clones, selected off vineyards at Red Hill and Main Ridge, Tuerong and Merricks North. An elegantly integrated expression of Mornington Chardonnay to enjoy alongside your favourite faire.

Peter Lehmann is about making a delicate, soft refreshing Chardonnay with the accent very much on letting the fruit flavours come to the fore. Barrel fermentation and maturation is used only sparingly, a small component is vinified in French oak barriques to give a touch of beautiful textural creaminess and contribute complexity. By assembling parcels of the finest Chardonnay from good vineyards in the lower Barossa, with those of the higher, cooler Eden Valley, Peter Lehmann makes a wine with great depth of flavour and stylishly taut structure.

By one of the nation's most illustrious and enduring wineries, Petaluma have won Distinguished Langtons Classification for their eminent editions of Chardonnay. Choice vineyards at Lenswood and Balhannah in the Adelaide Hills have been trained for decades to yield harvests of world class fruit. White Label is identifiably Adelaide Hills, fruit forward and revitalizingly fresh, the Chardonnay of choice, to drink immediately upon release, while awaiting for her eminent sibling to evolve and come of age.

Pepperjack is a tribute to the rich heritage of Barossa Valley. Pepperjack's dynamic and imaginative team are masters of traditional winemaking practices. Conscious of modern styles and contemporary tastes, they have crafted a ripe, fruit driven Chardonnay, cannily treating separate components to various techniques. A vibrant peach, applejack and melon palate is brought forward into an immensely satisfying Chardonnay wine, endowed with the generous and enduring Pepperjack style.

Since inaugural release, Koonunga Hill has continued to deliver an engaging Chardonnay wine in the traditional Penfold style. Koonunga Hill is now considered by many to be amongst Australia's best values in white wine, the final word in easy drinking Chardonnay. A well proportioned palate with a level of intensity and excellent varietal definition over a subtle underlay of moderate oak. Matured in a selection of small French barriques, Koonunga Hill is richly concentrated with plenty of distinctive primary fruit characters, supported by textural, creamy flavours.

Oyster Bay truly captures the unique character of Marlborough Chardonnay, endowed with pure, incisive, ripe fruit flavours. A combination of oak barrel ferments and lees stirring battonage achieves maximum softness, integration and texture. Clonal influences in the vineyard are very important, providing smaller berries and enhanced flavour intensity. The achievement is a delicious Chardonnay wine with a concentration of fine, clean aromas and delightfully piquant flavours.

Oxford Landing have forged an unassailable reputation for their compelling range of stylish, exquisitely balanced wines, a true expression of the region and vineyards whence they are sourced. Access to the latest Chardonnay clonal and rootstock combinations continues to deliver outstanding quality harvests, brimming with rich varietal stone fruit, melon and grapefruit characters. An extravagant regimen of wild ferments, lees ageing and reserve wines, enrich the palate of this generosuly proportioned, forward drinking Chardonnay.

Captain Cook's first step ashore anywhere in New Zealand was at Poverty Bay. Today it is the site of the world's easternmost vineyard, the first vines to see the sun each day. It remains a highly specialised white wine growing region and the Chardonnay capital of New Zealand. In the warmer and more humid climes of the North Island's east coast, the vines sprout plump berries of outstanding quality Chardonnay, encouraged by the drying breezes in a way that translates into the most vigorous, fruit driven Chardonnay wines.

The main aim in crafting Ninth Island is to maximise the natural cool climate flavours and aromas of Chardonnay without the use of any oak. An assemblage of vineyards from the Tamar and Pipers River/ Pipers Brook regions which yield harvests of slowly ripened Chardonnay, paradoxically a normally quick to ripen varietal. There is extreme flavour accumulation and plenty of natural acidity in the grapes at harvest, translating into a fresh, early drinking style of Chardonnay wine that captures the distinctive flavours and affability of all things Tasmanian.

Lock & Key redefines the style of New South Wales Chardonnay. The cool climes of Tumbarumba at the foothills of Snowy Mountains are ideally suited to producing lean, elegant and refined Chardonnay wines. The region is fast gaining recognition as a source of Australia's finest fruit, it has been selected by the nation's most distinguished winemakers for the development of exciting new vineyards. Lock & Key unravels an elegant palate of abundant ripe cashew citrus characters, melon and stonefruit flavours.

Montage are fashionable wines, blended for contemporary palates, in fully approachable modern styling, crafted at the De Bortoli wineworks in Bilbul on the Riverina. The label depicts a montage of architectural elements that reflect the De Bortoli family's heritage. A bright and refreshing union of Chardonnay with Semillon, exhibiting intense fruit and concentrated flavours, designed for good food.

After much time spent travelling throughout the premiere viticole de France, Mike and Mrs Press fell in love with the Rosé of Provence, resolving to create a single vineyard effort from their very own property in Adelaide Hills. This is no cloying pink drink but a serious Adelaide Hills wine, fashioned from the timeless and enduring cépage of La Bourgogne. A mesmerising Rosé with the palate weight and depth of refined Pinot Noir, paradoxically offering the crispness and drying crystalline texture of the most elegant Chardonnay.

Mike Press is one of the nation's most experienced winemakers. After a long and distinguished career, which began under the tutelage of the legendary Max Schubert, Mike settled on a site at Lobethal in Adelaide Hills to grow grapes during a term of semi retirement. He chose his ground well, he lives comfortably amongst the vines and is delighted every year with harvests of the finest fruit. The undulating aspects and favourable mesoclimes of Mike's vineyard yield a quality of Chardonnay which has been repeatedly listed in the illustrious Halliday 1OO.

The McWilliams estate vineyards along the Riverina can be traced back to the region's earliest settlement, but the skill at vinification is cutting edge. Traditonal principles of winemaking go hand in hand with state of the art facilities and a commitment to over deliver, whatever the pricepoint and style. Inheritance is fashioned to a vibrant, contemporary Chardonnay styling, will suitably accompany gourmet fish and chips or asian prawns on aromatic rice.

The Hunter Valley is Australia's oldest wine growing region, its slubrious alluvial flats produce richly full flavoured wines. McGuigan's hand picked team of consummate wine makers are continuously searching for the best grapes whilst marrying the best of modern techniques with generations of wine making tradition. McGuigan's Bin Range has been a long time favourite in Australia. A creamy Chardonnay wine with a ripe peach palate which drinks effortlessly, Bin 7000 is fashioned for today's contemporary lifestyles and relaxed everyday enjoyment.

Mayfield Vineyard is one of the highest and coolest vineyards in Australia, endowed with an extended, gradual ripening period. The hundred hectare estate surrounds the historic homestead on the Icely Road leading to where gold was first discovered in Australia. Its unique aspects, low vigour soils and a modest yield regime is highly conducive to the production of elegant and refined wines. The cool climes encourage the grapes to ripen without heat stress. Icely Road is a fully approachable Chardonnay tailored for sophisticated palates.

When Long Flat embarked on their winemaking adventure several decades ago, there was one ideal, to bring a range of the finest approachable wines to Australian palates while building a reputation for consistent quality. Every year since, has meant a search by the Long Flat team for the best fruit of vintage. A forward drinking Chardonnay in bright contemporary styling, its clean, lingering palate makes Long Flat the ideal match to chicken grills and warm seafood salads.

Bin 65 makes the luxury of well structured, stylish Chardonnay more accessible than ever. Carrying the palate weight to match white meat recipes such as turkey or pork, while offering the refinement to west coast marron or moreton bay bug. Like all sophisticated Chardonnay, a term of maturation under French oak builds structure, contributes aromaticness, roundness of palate and luxurious mouthfeel.

An assemblage of four vineyard sites, chosen for their unique capacity to construct a wine that is so much greater than the sum of parts. For twenty years, Kellermeister have been perfecting the Chardonnay, fashioned to be a chaste wine from exclusively free run juices. Virgin offers a great depth of fruit driven flavours with a touch of herbaceousness in wonderfully unoaked styling.

Vintage 2005 for the Country Selection Chardonnay brought sensational ripeness and good acid balance to the grapes, from a season characterised by cool and moderate conditions in February to April. Small parcels of refined, delicate Mount Gambier and generous, tightly structured Adelaide Hills fruit were included in the blend to compliment the elegant, fine citrus flavours derived from the Coonawarra fruit. The Coonawarra Chardonnay parcels were picked early to retain the delicate regional varietal citrus flavours, tight structure and good length.

Since the early 1950s, Jamiesons Run have been at the forefront of viticulture, sourcing the best fruit from the finest Limestone Coast vineyards. Chardonnay is monitored throughout the season, earmarked by the winemaking team, parcels are selected on the basis of luscious stonefruit characters, physiological ripeness and refreshing redolence. The balanced new age style of Chardonnay, showing tight citrus fruit character and cleansing acidity, achieving length of flavour and clean finish. Serve alongside yabbies or west coast marron in chervil coconut curry!

Choice Adelaide Hills sites are called upon at vintage time to contribute the pick of their fruit for Jacobs Creek Reserve. The dedicated winemaking team will have already spent much time working alongside growers and tasting grapes as they ripen on the vine. Wild indigenous barrel ferments in fine French oak, malolactics and lees stirring, create a remarkable white wine of powerful fruit richness and mesmerising complexity, all within a balanced and modern style of Adelaide Hills Chardonnay.

Jacobs Creek are known for their attractive, medium bodied Chardonnay, a deliciously nectarine flavoured wine, highly appealing for it's purity of fruit, elegance and finesse. As the retention of primary varietal characters are the main objective, the ferment is clarified and inoculated to neutral wine yeasts. Post fermentation, components are treated to a rich, extended lees contact and a touch of malolactic which adds complexity.

McLaren Vale is famous for its Mediterranean clime, ideal growing conditions which yield a distinct genre of Chardonnay, gentle and fruit forward with exemplary balance. Ingoldby can boast the Midas touch with Chardonnay, fashioned to the traditional McLaren Vale style, always displaying lovely elegance and finesse, a rejuvenating wine of focus and length. The citrus, nectarine and soft creamy buttery finish makes Ingoldby the perfect Chardonnay to accompany fresh white fleshed fishes, which we should all be eating twice weekly.

Grazing pastures invariably make the most auspicious soils for winegrowing. Hugo owe their splendid provenance to a mixed farm which ran sheep and assorted cattle, dairy and tomatoes, almonds and of course grapes. Chardonnay vineyards came much later, but McLaren Vale, influenced by balmy maritime climes and populated by olive groves, is highly favourable to white grapes. Hugo choose to frame the natural charm of McLaren Vale Chardonnay with a supple touch of oak, allowing the fruit to speak for itself, a ripe peach and nectarine style, perfect for chicken caesar or salade niçoise.

Howling Wolves are crafted by a team of dedicated growers and accomplished winemakers, all take an interest in ensuring that the finished wines are of the highest possible quality, always. Howling Wolves is the embodiement of new world wine treated with old world sensitivity, the most precious fruit, handled with the utmost care. A stunning Chardonnay wine, showcasing the inimitable expressions of Margaret River, driven by ripe stonefruit characters and vital herbaceousness, with a silky smooth textural feel and just a hint of integrated oak.

Since that first memorable vintage of 1859, the historic Houghton wineworks have been relied upon for an unbroken tradition of the most satisfying West Australian wines. Houghton continue every year with an impressive range to suit every contemporary taste and discerning palate. It is the exacting attention to detail in the vineyard and winery which set Houghton apart. Stylised after a fashionable old trademark and sourced from the choicest West Australian vineyards, the Red Stripe range delivers the flavour, freshness and the timeless excellence which define Houghton.

The key to Houghton's longevity and success is no big secret, make your wine from fruit grown to an endowment of the finest vineyards and leave the winemaking to the dedicated efforts of a skilled and accomplished team. Harvests of the finest Chardonnay, collated from the premier viticultural precincts of Margaret and Frankland Rivers, Swan Valley and Gin Gin, are assembled into a stylish young wine with profound regional fruit character, to be enjoyed everyday and at any occasion. The Chardonnay of choice to match creamy prawns gumbo or new england chowder.

A revitalizing cépage of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris, from fine vineyards in Eden Valley and the distinguished Henschke Lenswood property at Adelaide Hills. This adroitly, hand chosen kaleidoscope of parcels is fashioned into a seamless wine, of stunning bouquets and engaging palate, named in honour of great aunt Ottilie Mathilde Henschke. Like the many remarkable women of an era when daily life was a far cry from the ease of today, she grew her own produce while raising a large family.

Fruit from healthy vineyards specialized in yielding grapes to specification, early ripening and disease free, is selected to make the Hardy No-additives range of wines. Barrel fermentation introduces subtle oak complexity onto the palate, whilst maintaining a reductive environment (non-oxidising) for the wine through contact with sedimentery yeast lees (for heightened flavour profiles). Utilizing innovative preservatives-free vinification, Hardy have been able to craft a wine without the use of any additives, purely for the enjoyment of good Chardonnay.

From the up and coming, newly established McWilliam vineyards on the Riverina, Hanwood Estate can proudly claim a conspicous win at Chardonnay Du Monde France! The Hanwood district in particular, was an area that John James McWilliam had identified early in the twentieth century as offering best potential to service the burgeoning wine markets. Hanwood is one of the most consistently awarded Chardonnay at its price point and arguably, the most enduring, reliable range of approachable, stylish wines in Australia.

McWilliam's are Australia's most awarded winemaker and Hanwood was at the start of it all. One of the nation's great historical wineries, distinguished by its barrel shaped cellar door and array of memorabilia on display in the estate's bottle shaped museum. Today's Hanwood team can source Chardonnay from the finest vineyards, some picked earlier than others to achieve a tantalizingly crisp balance of flavours. In contemporary fruit forward styling, exhibiting a racy expression of Chardonnay, refreshingly brisk with a lively clean finish.

Hanwood Estate finds the best grapes, grown to the extensive resource of McWilliam's vineyards, to create Chardonnays which are consistent in quality and style from year to year. Each edition holds it's own unique place within the pantheon of reputable McWilliam brands. Hanwood Crisp is a zesty, lifted and fruitier style than your typical everyday Chardonnay, offering good structure and excellent fruit intensity. A freshly fruit driven, tightly focused wine that's excellent on it's own yet resplendent with chicken caesar, gourmet pizza or veal pasta.

Gunn Estate are world class, having claimed top trophy at the International Chardonnay France, 5 Winestate Stars, Gold ANZ and Blue-Gold at the Sydney International, all for varietal whites.

Crafted by a highly distinguished 5 Halliday Star Estate, affording every penurious enthusiast the opportunity to experience one of our nation's superior efforts in elite vineyard, Tumbarumba Chardonnay. Treated to the extravagance of French oak, a rich, fulll bodied textural construct of Burgundy influenced, old world style Chardonnay. Powerful, classy and marvellously detailed in its length and breadth, $32 at the estate cellar door or grab it today $20.90, delivered fully labelled with a 100% money back guarantee, to any destination within Australia!

Mr Burge retains a host of vineyards which proffer a palette of complimenting climes, soil and aspects to the winemaking team. Each site is matched to the most suitable grape, ensuring harvests of exceptional quality fruit. Benchmark sets a high standard, the finest quality grapes and adroit vinification. Burge selects only those parcels which can best express a generosity of Chardonnay character. Benchmark is fashioned to a refreshing, supply oaked style, the ideal accompaniment to roast chicken, piquant thai green curries or creole style fish.

The original block of Gracebrook Chardonnay was established in 1989, on a fertile river flat paddock that's sited very near the homestead. The first vintage of Chardonnay grapes were sold to Baileys of Glenrowan, subsequent vintages found their way into some of Victoria's most esteemed labels. In 1994 a small batch of estate made Chardonnay was entered in the King Valley Shed Wine Show where it won Best in Class. A superior effort in Chardonnay, from the salubrious cool ripening climes of Victoria's high country.

The infectious enthusiasm of the late great Jack Mann, encouraged a small number of farmers in the Great Southern to try their hand at viticulture. The three Goundrey vineyards were amongst the first to be planted at Mount Barker, they remain meticulously managed and cared for by a dedicated team who work closely to ensure vintages of the finest fruit. The conspicuous freshness of Homestead Chardonnay is defined as much by the quality of harvest, as it is by a natural, minimalist winemaking approach, completely unwooded and unoaked.

Warburn Estate's Gossips Chardonnay is a best value tropically flavoured table white with magnificent distinct citrus characters and an unexpected underlying vanilla suppleness. Crisp citrus lime flavours and refreshing hints of stone fruit through an artisanal balance of cuvees from complementery vintages and premium grapegrowing districts. The buttery mouth feel emphasizes the complexity of this extremely food friendly wine, it's clean acidity is a perfect foil for the spiciness of Thai food, exotically cooked white meats, piquante cheeses or spicy seafood.