2014 McLaren Vale Hunt Chardonnay

I discovered a great Chardonnay recently for a very cheap price – but with limited availability under strange circumstances: the remainders of a 2014 McLaren Vale (South Australia) Chardonnay from Dowie Doole, exported by Tilley's Wines to the USA. It's a shame, because all of its features are attractive: in colour, a classic gold, but with the slightest of slightest pink tinges; the smell and palate intriguing, with fairy-floss, pine-lemon-lime in the former redolent of a sweet heaven, and a fantastical/whimsical edge on the latter of a high lemon-snow cliff-face, or peach. As a wine, it's carnivalesque sideshow alley without the agro. Tilley says they are recognised as a leading importer of characterful wines from small, family-run vineyards in McLaren Vale, Adelaide Hills and Clare Valley. The label features the lovely leaping movement of a horse through the typeface of Hunt.