Chardonnay vines in Margaret River, Australia Australian Chardonnay has come of age. Since the bumptious iterations swaddled in oak of the 1990s, via the anorexic prototypes of the mid-2000s, the idiom has moved away from liminal extremes, to one that nestles comfortably between tension and ebullient fruit, with increasingly clear regional demarcations.
While effete comparisons with Burgundy Chardonnay
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