Product Details

Piccadilly

2024
Adelaide Hills
Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills – 300 Cases
$90.00

Long-term followers of this pristine chardonnay will notice subtle changes in the style of the wine. While remaining entirely from the Piccadilly Valley, the change is mainly due to a different clonal mix. Admirable finesse, powerful perfumes of grapefruit, lime juice and cashews captured in an almost steely framework. More approachable when young but still with the capacity to age. Powerful and refined.

Only 300 cases

100% chardonnay grown in the Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills

Barrel fermented exclusively in French oak barriques (40% new) for 10 months; only partial natural malolactic fermentation

Unfined: suitable for vegans and vegetarians

Released: April 2025

Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion
96 Points
A silky textured, inwardly concentrated release with fresh nashi pear, red apple, light gingery spice elements, halva and brine as the mainstays of descriptors. The potency gives a sense of power but there's control and elegance here, too. A graceful, salivating white of medium to fuller weight with impeccable balance and length. It's a star.
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
95 Points
No Chardonnay produced in 2023 by the big J-Dog, but here we have the 2024. 300 cases produced. It’s clearly a very young wine, and released too early, though if you’re popping down $84, well, I’m thinking you’ll do the right thing and wait a while. Quality fruit. Quality oak. It’s glossy and smooth, pear and nectarine, nougat, fennel and white flower perfume, lime leaf, spicy biscuit oak. It has intensity, moves to ripe lime flavour on the palate, firm powdery texture, with a bright and juicy finish of excellent length. It offers polish and precision, and has something of a ginger biscuit and lemongrass exotic character in the aftertaste. Very nice. Exemplary, even. It could well be the best Grosset Chardonnay I’ve tasted.
Tyson Stelzer
95 Points
There was no 2023 and the vines have come back with a spectacularly precise rendition in the cool 2024 season in the heights of the Piccadilly Valley! The tension of lemon and grapefruit leads out, building body of white peach and fig on the mid-palate that lingers on a long finish of bright acidity and the mineral tension of low pH. Oak is neatly enveloped, promising a long and distinguished future. Drink 2029-2039