Tahbilk Marsanne 2023

With extensive flooding and low yields, it is easy to see the 2023 Nagambie Lakes vintage as problematic. Shut your eyes, open your tastebuds, and there is life here and brightness of fruit and energy. Spring blossoms come to mind, the pure scent of honeysuckle and citrus. It’s an early bloomer – or so it appears just before release – immediate and attractive right now (late Dec) in lemon sorbet tang, green apple and quince delivered with an emerging texture. Gotta say, I am enjoying it now, but I know what Tahbilk unwooded marsanne is capable of with bottle ageing. Never to be underestimated. Drink from: 2024. Drink by: 2036. Special Value. Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wines 2024: Best white wines under $40. Score – 95. (Jeni Port, winecompanion.com.au, Aug. 8, 2024)