92 points

2021 Halliday Wine Companion

The entry point into the Vasse Felix range of Chardonnays, one that less well endowed producers would happily present as their icon. Balance is the key, all the components in the right place at the right time. White peach, rock melon, apple and grapefruit all in harmonious balance, oak incidental.

91 points

John Szabo MS, WineAlign (Canada)

Sharp and vivid, properly reductive, with terrific acids and excellent length - this is another fine example at the (excellent) entry-level from Vasse Felix, over delivering at the price. This fits neatly into the post-modern style of Aussie Chards, indeed is a leeder in the category, where flitiness and fruit-backward flavours rule. Excellent length.

91 points

Wine & Spirits

Virginia Willcock selects less concentrated lots of chardonnay from Vasse Felix’s estate vineyards for Filius, fermenting them with ambient yeasts and limiting the new oak. Her 2018 is cool and zesty, the juicy nectarine flavors integrated with a little spicefrom oak tannins and lasting with leesy length. Pour it with a crayfish boil.

91 points

LCBO VINTAGES

Elegant, medium-high to high intensity nose is complex with stonefruit, apple, stone mineral, lime citrus, and herbally aromas with a slightly reductive character. It is medium-full bodied on the palate with very nice, balanced aroma replays. Bright acids are well-balanced. Excellent finish length.

90 points

The Globe and Mail

Medium-full-bodied and vibrant, displaying the crisp freshness of Western Australia's cool Margaret River region. Good ripeness, volume and length, with flavours of tropical and citrus fruit supported by slightly toasty, well-handled oak and notes of herbs and flint. Rich and elegant.

92 points

Waters and Wine

Made in the house style, this is marked with a reductive note that gives way to a pleasing mix of citrus and mineral notes. Filius is crisp and complex, a refined style that continues to be at the vanguard of Australian Chardonnay. Its zesty, bright acidity and appealing texture makes this appealing now and with potential to develop nicely over the next three to five years.

92 points

James Halliday Wine Companion

The entry point into the Vasse Felix range of chardonnays, one that less well endowed producers would happily present as their icon. Balance is the key, all the components in the right place at the right time. White peach, rock melon, apple and grapefruit all in quiet balance, oak incidental.

Crunchy Apple Citrus and a touch of Pear

Irish Independent Corinna Hardgrave The Wine Buff

24.99punds 13 pence The grapes for this Margaret River wine are selected from a number of different vineyard parcels. This means that there are multiple clones of chardonnay, which include the Gingin clone. Using wild fermentation, each parcel is fermented separately in oak. This adds a barley discernible toasty note to the finished wine as only 20pc of the barrels are new, the balance ranging in age from one to five years. Its then blended to produce an elegant style of wine that has finesse, with light fruit flavours of crunchy apple, citrus and a touch of pear.

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The Wine Society Champion 2020

Margaret River enjoyed an exceptional vintage in 2018 and its purportedly 'once-in-40-years' quality was picked up by our palates. Vasse Felix's second Champion wine in 2020 and a remarkably complex chardonnay for the price, poised and crisp yet rounded and toasty too. Drink now to 2022.13% 14.95 pounds bottle and 89.50 pounds case of six.

The Chardonnay Masters - Asia 2020 Gold Medal

The Drink Business-Alice Liang

Margaret River estate Vasse Felix is another Australian winery the judges raved about in the competition, as it scooped two Gold medals. In the Oaked HK$151-200 category, Vasse Felix ' Filius' Chardonnay 2018 caught the panel's attention due to its "elegant, juicy, generous, lingering and highly drinkable" profile, according to Yu.

91 points

Natalie Maclean

Vasse Felix's Filius is a cool-climate Chardonnay from the Margaret River Valley in Australia. Rich, dry with fresh ripe apple, tropical fruit, bright citrus and toasty flavours on the palate from oak ageing. Enjoy now and for the next three years.

8/10 Great Value

Awesomme

This delicious Margaret River Chardonnay underwent malotactic fermentation and spent 8 months maturing in oak pre-bottling. French barriques were used with 20% new barrels and the remainder 1-5 years old. This is a dry, full-bodied chardonnay with only 1.62g/L of residual sugar. It is drinking beautifully now and will cellar until2024/2025. A palate of green apple, white pear and subtle oak nuances makes this a very easy drinking Chardonnay for any occassion with or without food.

17

JancisRobinson.com - Julia Harding MW

Barrel fermented, spontaneously and with cloudy juice, and aged in barrel. Winemaker Virginia Willcock thinks 2018 was an exciting vintage for both red and white wines, the greatest in the recent string of consistent vintages. There was no pressure from disease or from the birds so they could harvest whenever they wanted to. Very slightly toasty on the nose and less smoky than the 2019 but still a little hint of that sulphidic character. On the palate, more intense and concentrated with a lovely honeyed richness, in both the flavour and texture, to balance the crisp citrus fruit. Really coming into its own now. (JH) 13%