Gibraltar Rock Chardonnay 2004

Its Friday night and there's always time for a relaxing drink to wind-down a working week. Given that tonight's meal consists of DIY pesto linguine pasta with buttered prawns and scallops, a quick look at the private 'cellar' (wardrobe) and pulled out a Chardonnay from the Porogurup region situated in Western Australia.

Appearance: Clear, young-looking, medium gold coloured wine.

Nose: The wine is quite accessible with slight aromas of lime and peach, while oak is fairly subtle.

Palate: Quite an uplifting medium-bodied wine with good length and balance. Wine is quite approachable with tastes consisting of lime and plenty of zest. I am surpirsed that it hasn't aged a bit more considering its been cellared for approximately 5 years, as it is still quite a young tasting wine. With more aeration the wine showed greater texture and cleaniness driven by citrus flavours.

Summary: Although it is not my personal preference, the wine is fresh, clean and showing citrus characteristics that drinks well now.

Overall: "Good - Every day drinking wine" - 6 / 10