This has such richness and complexity from the outset. Kinzbrunner is flexing all the muscle in this 2018 chardonnay. The nose is wildly complex with flint, wet stones and lemon and grapefruit pith. Peach and praline notes, too. This is so, so complex. The palate has a plush, smooth-honed texture and delivers a full, textural takeover with intense peaches, mangoes and peach custard and a smooth, deep finish. This is exceptional. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

98 points, JamesSuckling.com (June 2020)

Bright, light to medium yellow colour, with a complex, well-worked bouquet displaying nougat (toasted almond and honey), smoked chicken, and a multitude of other aromas. These all translate to the palate, which is full-bodied and rich, but not forward or over-built in any way. There's a generous component of matchstick sulfides as well as classy oak. It has great concentration and persistence, is packed with flavour and entertains to the last drop. There is a sweetness and richness that comes not from residual sugar but sheer concentration of ripe fruit flavour.

97 points, The Real Review (May 2020)

A whole heap of struck match, dropped into melting butter. It’s slippery and powerful, lime and fresh cut pineapple acidity, oatmeal, ginger and cinnamon, peppermint and white chocolate, pear skin and chalk, feels very wet and very dry at once, citrus zest and oak spice, pancakes with peaches, grip and crunch and smoke on a very long finish. Almost painful in its intensity and volume, so much so, the neighbours can probably hear me drinking it. Yet, still, undeniable quality in the glass here. En garde.

96 points, The Wine Front (May 2020)