Pale straw colour. Lemon rind and marzipan notes on the bouquet. The fruit is restrained, and there is considerable strength and some thickness to the texture on the palate. Not at all fat, but rich - this richness is combined with a Riesling-like strictness. The wine flows across the palate with evenness and depth. Flavours of straw, almond, fennel, jelly crystals, and lime juice, with length and intensity that it is a hallmark of Faultline.

A powerful and complex bouquet dominated by mineral complexity and offset with pure lemon aromas; there is real nervosity and tension to the palate, with acid providing a taut backbone to the layered, complex and intriguing fruit components; the final element is the incredible length and the manner in which the wine continues to open up long after it is gone. Cork. 13% alc. Drink 2016 $52 Date Tasted Jan 09; 96 Points – James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010 Edition.

Austere and briney, this long, delicate chardonnay is scented with white flowers, cloves and cinnamon, suggestions of struck match, waxy notes of wheatmeal and funky, meaty undertones. It's lean and mineral, very dry and savoury, with a slightly metallic note and persistent citrus/melon fruit.(18.2/93, YTD 2012-2015) – Jeremy Oliver