96 Points

Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

2022 was on the warm side and this bottling of one of Margaret River's top Chards offers less of the reductive struck match and roasted-nut aromas of past vintages. It instead displays pithy citrus and melon rind, oats and salty seashell aromas, with a slight metallic edge. Round and textured, but with lovely acidity throughout, the concentrated fruit, oak and malolactic influences are all in perfect harmony. This may not be the longest-lived Heytesbury, but it's a damn fine drop now.

94 Points

Ned Goodwin MW - James Suckling

This vintage is challenging, manifested here as a bony framework with a phenolic edginess. Apricots, truffles, ginger and glazed quince. The acidity, despite the medium body, is all knees and elbows. The finish is not as smooth as it could be. And yet I feel that time will work wonders as things settle down. Just believe. Drinkable now, but best from 2027.

98 Points

Andrew Caillard MW - The Vintage Journal

Pale colour. Intense tropical fruit, guava, yellow peach aromas with marzipan, grilled nut flinty notes. Fresh and voluminous nectarine, yellow peach fruits, superb fine al dente textures, lovely mid-palate viscosity, underlying marzipan grilled nut notes and persistent crystalline acidity. Impressively concentrated and balanced that should develop well over a short to medium term. Beautiful to drink now - 2030.

95 Points

Rob Geddes MW

The striking aromas of rich fruit and oak impact reveal fresh fig and classy barrel ferment toasty oak in the foreground. This is sumptuous in the mouth with fruit richness that is not overdone, flowing to the luxurious middle palate fruit volume. It is very well integrated with fine acidity, holding the fruit in place and quite dry from wild ferment to close. This wine is moving to be at the pure fruited, richer fruit flavours spectrum of oaked Chardonnay, the fuller flavoured end of Margaret River Chardonnay—56% aged in new oak, which is a big part of the signature.