Our recent offers of Larry Cherubino’s wines have all met with considerable success and we now have one of his most distinctive wines: 2024 Uovo Chardonnay.
Cherubino is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most successful and innovative winemakers and his range of Uovo wines are made in clay cement ovoid tanks – giant eggs (hence Uovo). The nature of the egg is such that a constant vortex-like current within the tank forces the lees upward, lending the wine a texture and vibrancy that is otherwise hard to achieve.
The fruit for his 2024 Uovo Chardonnay comes from the Channybearup vineyard, the same used for his Pemberton Chardonnay. The style, though very much Cherubino, is more taut, chalky and reductive. The egg-elevage gives texture but also freshness, with gun-smoke-inflected fruit building alongside the chalky, layered mouthfeel. Brimming with energy, you can drink and enjoy this tonight, but we would recommend a light decant and not serving it too cold.
The Wine Advocate’s Erin Larkin rates the wine 95 points, a punchy score for a wine that is less than £100 a six in bond, and a sample tasted here at Farr HQ impressed us all. Fans of the struck match style of Chardonnay will adore this wine, which will repay time in the bottle. It comes in at a refreshing 13% alcohol and begs you to come back for more.
We have limited stock available for delivery from next week, with further stocks from the winery available in June.
The 2024 Uovo Chardonnay is savory, textural and salty, with chalky phenolics that really grip the core of fruit. This has a creamy nuttiness about it that is typical of the Cherubino house style (and we love it for that), but the impact of the concrete egg here is a tightening of texture and shape through the finish. This is an excellent wine, one that comes highly recommended. The fruit is from Pemberton, a cool and wet area in Western Australia's Southern Forest area—a place of towering Karri trees and adjacent to the best growing area for truffles in Australia, Manjimup. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2035
Made in a clay cement ovoid tank (hence Uovo), this wine is therefore unmarked by wood and has a hit of reduction that will appeal to those who like their Chardonnays with a real hit of struck match. The nose is led by this note, together with lemon tart and passion flower. The palate has a supple texture from the lees, rounding the fine edges, zesty acidity and chalky texture. More lemon curd, struck flint and sweeter, plump stone fruits come through. There is a non wood level of peppery spice throughout, partly reduction and partly site. This is a lip-smacking, moreish wine that I would give a light decant if approaching now, and ensure not to serve too cold so the fruit and texture show their best.
