Sigurd 2015 Fjörd Adelaide Hills Chardonnay

Daniel Graham’s Sigurd 2015 Fjörd Adelaide Hills Chardonnay would be glorious with food, though the food would have to be equally bold (maybe Southern-fried chicken), for the Chardy, bold in its goldy-gold colour, has a bold, textured palate of ginger and vanilla with a memory of the traditional peach/apricot which zipped out of the opened bottle as its perfume, and the stone fruit being underscored by cinnamon. Daniel Graham, like Jared Dixon of Jilly wines, are part of a cork-and-wax revolution, returning bottles of wine to their traditional packaging. This Sigurd Chardi’s label mimics the Adelaide Hills in high summer with a yellow sky, as if in early sunset, as a backdrop to white/pink hills, on a stout, dark and heavy bottle.