Kate Goodman is a quiet icon of the Victorian wine scene, and has worked for some of the biggest names across the country, including leading lights such as Dalwhinnie, Seppelts and Wirra Wirra. She moved to the Yarra in 2000 and established her eponymous label in 2012 and has continued to blaze her own trail and produce quietly unassuming and yet brilliantly elegant wines year after year.
Using delicious fruit from a number of well-established, high-performing vineyards around the Yarra Valley, Goodman crafts and constructs a range of wines that are evocative and delicious. Using no-one but her own tastes as guide, this range sways from Yarra classics to Italian natives and back again. To complement Goodman Wines, she also produces the Nikkal Wine range. Nikkal is the Phoenician goddess of fruits and harvest, thus these wines are a celebration of the fruitful generosity of Yarra Valley vineyards!
From two high quality in the Upper Yarra, this is modern Aussie Chardonnay par excellence, albeit in a gentle, elegant fashion. It is a full-flavoured yet medium weight Chardonnay with cool, clean lines and a little bit of funk. Lime, pear and smoke all intermix, with a hint of flint and gravel.
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