Chardonnay 2025

Chardonnay was one of the varietals planted first in the Concongella Vineyard in the 1970’s even though cuttings were extremely hard to come by at the time. This wine comes from an old single vineyard located on a cool sheltered site within the Great Western GI. Our 2025 Chardonnay was aged for 8 months in French oak and achieved 25% malolactic fermentation with plenty of lees stirring and contact to encourage a rich, complex and textured wine. Our 2025 vintage is beautifully balanced and made in style more akin to the older styles from Best’s.

Best’s Great Western Chardonnay 2025 ‘Here’s a charming, mouth filling and complex chardonnay with layers of fruit and creamy texture. Ripe white peach, nectarine and lemony fruit backed by notes of butterscotch, nougat and faintly toasty vanilla oak are deftly matched in a medium-weight wine of pristine fruit and flavour. Wrapped in a gentle but mouthwatering acidity, it’s exceptional value and will find many a friend amongst those who shy from the modern fruit-stripped variant of this style. Give it a year or two – and perhaps you can afford to do this at its very welcoming price – and you’ll have a rounder, juicier wine of some distinction’. 92/100 Jeremy Oliver

Jacob Parton Hailing from the NSW cool- climate wine region of Orange, Jacob began working in vineyards from the age of 14. He moved to Sydney to begin an electrical apprenticeship before returning home, where he was offered a maintenance position at Phillip Shaw Wines. After a few months, he joined the vintage team for the 2016 harvest and instantly fell in love with the industry. He worked a further five vintages with Phillip Shaw Wines under the tutelage of Nadja Wallington and the Shaw Family. Completing his degree in Oenology, Jacob spent a vintage in California’s Sonoma Coast, before joining Best’s Great Western in 2021.