Lismore Estate

Chardonnay Reserve, Greyton, 2021

Name: Chardonnay Reserve, Greyton
Brand: Lismore Estate
Price: 261.94 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

94/100

Vinous

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2021
6x75cl
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£261.94

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The Estate Reserve Chardonnay is top drawer. Tensile, discreet at first, it gives way to a host of fresh stone fruits, citrus peel and lemongrass. Judicious toast and a delicate florality, hints of rock salt, stone and nuts, there is a lot going on here and it feels very grown up. It aged for 11 months in 40% new French oak. Planted at 300m on deep shale soils, cold nights allow for a later harvest at full ripeness, all the while maintaining a vibrant acidity.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

94/100

Anthony Mueller,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Coming from unirrigated vines, the 2021 Estate Reserve Chardonnay offers hints of key lime pie with elegant oak tones that waft from the glass with precision and finesse. Medium-bodied, the wine compresses in the mouth, showing a beautiful blanket of oak with impeccable focus before the wine grows in amplitude and resonates with a long, brilliant finish. It's a fantastic Chardonnay that performs like a baby Burgundy.

drinking window 2023 - 2036

date of review 12/2023

94/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2021 Chardonnay Estate Reserve is 100% from Greyton matured for 11 months in 500-litre barrels, 40% new. It has a wonderful bouquet with honeydew melon, apricot blossom and light crushed stone scents that percolate through with time. The palate is very well balanced with tropical hints of passion fruit and guava, but the acidity keeps everything on a tight course, very minerally on the finish. Top class.

drinking window 2022 - 2040

date of review 09/2022

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.