Yattarna Chardonnay 2018 is a multi-regional blend from Tasmania, Tumbarumba and Adelaide Hills. The 2018 release has an extra layer of complexity – a touch of subtle Chablis-like funk Like the oak (Yattarna 2018 spent 8 months in French oak barriques, 60% new), the funk is beautifully integrated – a stealthy and seamless layer of texture and complexity. As always, the fruit is bright’n tight, with scintillating, steely grapefruit drive and fresh cut apple to the core. A hint of bruised apple and cloudy apple juice too. Rather, hitched to racy, mineral acidity, the palate has tremendous intensity, line and length and a palpable sense of dry extract. Tensile, there is no shortage of backbone here, yet Yattarna 2018 is eminently broachable too. 96 points by the Wine Front