Bright green-straw; immaculately structured and balanced, at once complex yet elegant, with melon and white peach fruit, a touch of hazelnut and cream seamlessly woven with French oak. Screwcap. 13.5% alc. Rating 94 points; Drink 2016 $22 Date Tasted Jan 09 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2010

Gone is the ‘Tin Cows’ label - it’s now simply called TarraWarra. Of course there will still be the reserve releases. The Tin Cows label was introduced back in the days when TarraWarra bought in some of the grapes for this label, but for some time now it’s been all estate grown. Sounds fair enough. Lovely wine. Really impressed with this. Gorgeous milky fragrance, pear-like fruit flavour, and racy acid before a grainy, spicy finish. Has length and subtlety, in a tangy, acidity style. May even cellar well beyond 2012. Rated : 91 Points Alcohol : 13.5% Price : $22 Closure : Screwcap Drink : 2009 - 2012 By Campbell Mattinson; The Wine Front

Lemon zest citrus aromas, with cashew notes and balanced oak lead to a palate of citrus and white peach flavours, with a creamy texture and lovely length and persistence. Winemaker, Clare Halloran, rates the 2008 Estate Chardonnay as one of our best.

Top 50 Winter Wines. Huon Hooke, 'Good Living' Sydney Morning Herald, May 2009

There's a lot to like in this wine...there are chardonnays twice the price of this that aren't half as good. Jane Faulkner The Age 30 Hours eat, drink, cook, April 2009

This is a lovely Chardonnay that lets the quality - and I should now add 'Estate' fruit - do the talking. That is not to say it is not bereft of wood as is commonplace in these parts of late. No, this has just the nicest little lick of subtle oak but the wine is driven by a juicy wine pumping out all the Chardy clichés of melon and apricot you can handle. The perfect landing is reflected with subtle cleansing acidity. An excellent wine and probably even better value. Now – 2013; Quality: Excellent BW; WineStar© August 2009