Description / Reviews
"Purus is a translation of pristine flavours, textures and the climate of southern Margaret River Chardonnay into wine. The vines have been carefully managed to allow only dappled light into the fruiting zone. This promotes flavour development, low tannins and bright levels of natural acidity. Pure perfumes of white pear, jasmine flower and wet granite are elegantly suspended above a palate carved from grapefruit pith and white nectarine flesh. Lashings of focused white fruit tannin and porcelain texture and length culminate in a sheer wall of quenching minerality and bristling tension." - Winemaker Notes
"This one has a precise purity and freshness about it, showing lots of white peach, a little nectarine, citrus, and a sort of lemon curd–brioche combination. The palate has a slight savoury chalky confluence that comes together and then drives with great purpose through to a long finish. This is the most stylish expression of Margaret River chardonnay that captures the awesome power of the fruit from this region." - 97 Points, Ray Jordan
"Winter melon, pear core and white peach. This is stony and full of limestone water and crystalline mineral energy — almost like drinking river water off a stone. But lean and mean is not the game here; instead the palate is met with creamy almond meal, sliced ripe nectarines, and a haze of lacey phenolics. There is a core of lanolin, some mouth-watering acidity, and a long finish of white pepper. A joyous vintage of Purus." - 96 Points, Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal
