Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2023
Wine Details
- White - Dry
- Fine wine
Australia- Bright Mid Gold
- Chardonnay
- 9.6 Units
- Vegan
- 12.8% ABV
- 750 ml
- Vegetarian
- 31 December 2029
Flavour Profile
Giant Steps was named Best Winery of the Year 2025 by the top Australian Wine Guide – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion. “Giant Steps, right now, breathes rare air. It’s been an outstanding winery for a long time, but the combination of energy and expertise – and no doubt plenty more besides – that winemaker Melanie Chester has brought since she arrived at the winery in November 2021 has frankly been breathtaking.”
Founder Phil Sexton moved from Margaret River to the Yarra Valley in 1997 to find the perfect climate for Burgundy’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. A mad jazz fan, he named his estate after John Coltrane’s album, a fitting tribute to the great leap he’d made. He planted vines in six areas and makes both single vineyard and Yarra Valley wines showing off the best of the region.
Long time a fan of this great estate, Mel Chester joined as winemaker in 2021 and the quality continues to soar. 2023 was a low-yielding, high quality vintage with a rare marriage of richness and elegance, as showcased in the Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay.
“This lovely, youthful, pale Chardonnay has a gentle sapidity, a delicacy and a fragility, a lightness of touch, but is deceptive; there’s intensity here, too, and fine acidity, and wonderful length that will blossom even more over time” 17.5/20, jancisrobinson.com.
Giant Steps was named Best Winery of the Year 2025 by the top Australian Wine Guide – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion. “Giant Steps, right now, breathes rare air. It’s been an outstanding winery for a long time, but the combination of energy and expertise – and no doubt plenty more besides – that winemaker Melanie Chester has brought since she arrived at the winery in November 2021 has frankly been breathtaking.”
Founder Phil Sexton moved from Margaret River to the Yarra Valley in 1997 to find the perfect climate for Burgundy’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. A mad jazz fan, he named his estate after John Coltrane’s album, a fitting tribute to the great leap he’d made. He planted vines in six areas and makes both single vineyard and Yarra Valley wines showing off the best of the region.
Long time a fan of this great estate, Mel Chester joined as winemaker in 2021 and the quality continues to soar. 2023 was a low-yielding, high quality vintage with a rare marriage of richness and elegance, as showcased in the Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay.
“This lovely, youthful, pale Chardonnay has a gentle sapidity, a delicacy and a fragility, a lightness of touch, but is deceptive; there’s intensity here, too, and fine acidity, and wonderful length that will blossom even more over time” 17.5/20, jancisrobinson.com.
