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Shaw & Smith M3 Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2021

97 POINT RATED JENI PORT JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION LIMITED ALLOCATION ONLY

^$ 49.99 /bottle by the straight dozen

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Why to buy:

97 POINT RATED JENI PORT HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
95 POINT RATED CAMPBELL MATTINSON THE WINE FRONT
95 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE THE REAL REVIEW
5 STAR RATED WINERY JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S FINEST CHARDONNAY PRODUCERS

Specifications:

Vintage:	2021
Source/Region:	Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Grape Variety:	Chardonnay
Cellaring:	Drink now or cellar up to 2031
Bottle Top:	Stelvin
Alcohol Content:	13.00
Standard Drinks:	7.70
Rating:	97

Tasting Notes:

The 2021 vintage was one of the best on record. Ripe and healthy fruit resulted in a beautifully balanced M3, with great flavours, and fresh acidity right through to the long finish.

Aiming for elegance, restraint and the ability to age, acid is bright and there’s generosity of flavour. Typically it shows white flowers, citrus, and nectarine notes.

Technical:

The growing season for the 2021 vintage was terrific, a joy after the traumas of 2020. Soaking winter rains gave us plenty of moisture in the soil, and that flowed into healthy crops. The summer was mild, slow ripening, with lots of flavour.

From Piccadilly, Lobethal and our Lenswood Vineyard, at 455–500 metres elevation. Undulating with east and west facing aspects, the soils are brown loams over clay with broken shale on the ridges. The vineyard was planted in 1999.

Hand picked and whole bunch pressed. Fermented and matured on lees in French oak barriques and puncheons.

Shaw + Smith winery was built in 2000 giving us the ability to whole-bunch press chilled grapes for the first time, and underpinning the evolution of style from that first M3 Chardonnay vintage in 2000 through to the present day. The most significant event since then came in 2012 with the purchase of the Lenswood vineyard.

Accolades & Awards:

97 Point Rated - Jeni Port Halliday Wine Companion

The '21 M3 release sees a price rise, which the makers clearly consider fitting for a wine celebrated as one of the best chardonnays in the country. It's also an outstanding vintage. Quietly, it wields its magic. Its youthful exuberance is tightly wound, with whispers of green apple, grapefruit, lemon peel and almond, firming and rising through the wine. Acidity drives and energises the pristine fruit with oak a gentle accompaniment. Fine and elegant now. An outstanding future is writ large.

95 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review

Light, bright green-yellow colour. Toasty nut bouquet, smoky oak, lovely fruit along with it, the palate delicate and restrained but intense at the same time, penetrating and long. A very taut, refined wine, with attractive tension and persistence. This is lovely now and has room to grow.

95 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front

Its impeccable self. Flavours of pear and quartz, nectarine and cedar, a gentle floral element, a subtle lactose note. It feels powerful, taut and refined at once. This is not a smack-you-in-the-eyes chardonnay and yet its quality and intensity are clear. As with many of the finest Australian chardonnays now, this will need a year or three from release to start showing its best self.