Tasting Notes 🍋

• Colour: Pale straw with green tinges.
• Aromatics: Cumquat, lemon, green apple and citrus zest with hints of struck match, nougat and wet river stones.
• Palate: Saline, crystalline and intensely focused. Zesty lemon and grapefruit drive through the mid palate with underlying nougat richness. Flinty, quartz-like dryness is balanced by a subtle touch of sweetness, creating tension and harmony.
• Finish: Long, textural and beautifully poised with fine acidity and light toasty oak in perfect sync.

Awards and Reviews 🏆

Ray Jordan, WA Wine Review 2025, 97 pts
Immediately strikes with intense precision and deep minerality. Citrus, savoury notes and chalky complexity showcase Chardonnay at the highest level. Powerful yet elegantly refined.

James Suckling, 96 pts
Hazelnuts, lemon curd, salted caramel, baked apples and toasted brioche. Full bodied and buttery with lively acidity. Salty caramel undertone on a long, sophisticated finish.

Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate, 95 pts
A glassy, pristine and exceptionally classy Palladian. Fluffy, powerful fruit wrapped in sleek acidity and fine phenolics. Pure Gin Gin clone, 100 percent new French oak and absolutely delicious.

Plus additional accolades:
• Halliday Wine Companion 2025, 95 pts
• James Halliday Chardonnay Challenge 2024, 92 pts
• The Real Review, 96 pts
• Decanter 2024 Margaret River Report, 96 pts
• Huon Hooke, 95 pts

Winemaker’s Note

The Palladian style focuses on purity and elegance, using meticulous whole bunch pressing and extended barrel work to shape a Chardonnay of remarkable refinement. The 2022 vintage, with its warm ripening season, has delivered a fuller, richer style supported by bright acidity and flinty detail.

Viticulture and Winemaking

• Variety: 100 percent Chardonnay
• Clone: Gin Gin
• Region: Wilyabrup, Margaret River
• Harvest: Hand picked on 21 February 2022
• Pressing: Whole bunch pressed to 450L per tonne for purity and low phenolic extraction
• Fermentation: 100 percent barrel ferment in 500L Burgundian special toast puncheons
• Lees Work: Stirred weekly for one month to build creamy texture
• Maturation: 9 months in French oak puncheons
• Bottling: 15 December 2022
• Alcohol: 13.0 percent
• pH: 3.1
• TA: 8.3 g/L
• Residual Sugar: 3.5 g/L

Cellaring Potential ❄️

Will continue to develop complexity, structure and richness over the next 10 to 12 years. Expect toasted hazelnut, lemon curd, honey and layered savoury complexity with time.

Food Pairing Suggestions 🍽️

• Seared scallops with citrus butter
• Crispy skin barramundi with lemon beurre blanc
• Roast chicken with thyme and garlic
• Lobster rolls with lemon aioli
• Soft-ripened cheeses such as brie or triple cream

FAQ Wine Terms 🧐

What makes the Gin Gin clone special?
It produces small, thick-skinned berries that deliver power, texture and exceptional concentration.

Why use 500L puncheons?
Larger barrels allow oak influence to be refined and elegant, supporting the fruit rather than overpowering it.

What does struck match mean?
It refers to a sulphide-derived character common in high-end Chardonnay, offering flint, smoke and complexity.

Learn About Fraser Gallop Estate

Fraser Gallop Estate Winery stands as a distinguished winery nestled in the renowned Margaret River Wine Region, celebrated for its exceptional wines. With a string of prestigious awards and accolades to its name, including recognition for its dedication to quality, Fraser Gallop Estate epitomises excellence in winemaking.

Established in 1999, Fraser Gallop Estate Wines is at the heart of Margaret River’s Wilyabrup valley (20km) north of the town of Margaret River and six kilometres from the southwest coast of Western Australia. The Estate enjoys splendid isolation and a moderate maritime climate created by the Indian Ocean to the north and west.

The vineyard of Fraser Gallop Estate features undulating topography and gravelly laterite loams over clay subsoil providing superb conditions in order to grow Bordeaux and Burgundy grape varieties. The unique location, geography and climate conditions combine to imbue the colour, flavours and aromas found only in a Fraser Gallop Wine.

Our winery, designed by our winemaker and purpose-built in 2008, has a 300-tonne capacity. It is specifically designed in layout and size for the fermentation of Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends.

Through minimal intervention, harnessing naturally occurring environmental yeasts, and employing a blend of traditional techniques and modern winemaking skills, we strive to create wines that exhibit balance and finesse upon release while possessing the structure and pedigree to flourish with careful cellaring.

Our Cabernet Sauvignon and Semillon Sauvignon Blanc wines develop their flavour, texture, and complexity in the finest quality French oak barrels sourced from renowned Bordelais cooperages for the Cabernet Sauvignon and Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends, and Burgundian cooperages for the Chardonnay.

We offer free delivery on all orders within Perth over $75. We can also order in a Fraser Gallop wine we don’t stock, email us at info@partnersinwine.com.au

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