Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

Name: Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
Brand: TradingGrapes
SKU: GSAJCHARD24
Price: 90.00 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock

Cool-climate class with serious pedigree 🍋⛰️

Sourced from the high-altitude, cool-climate Applejack Vineyard in the Upper Yarra, this is a site that delivers drive, precision, and tension in every vintage. The 2024 release is no exception—brimming with citrus, stone fruit, and flinty minerality, wrapped in fine oak and racy acidity.

Giant Steps has become a benchmark Yarra Valley producer, with 35+ trophies, 100+ gold medals, and a seven-time winner of Wine & Spirits’ Top Wineries of the Year. Most recently, they were named 2025 Halliday Winery of the Year, with the previous vintage crowned White Wine of the Year 2025 by The Real Review and the matching Applejack Pinot Noir taking out Halliday's Pinot Noir of the Year.

This Chardonnay is a masterclass in site expression, structure, and finesse—destined for cellars, yet dangerously drinkable now.

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What the experts say about this wine

97 points - James Suckling

A notably complete single-vineyard bottling, with an excellent balance of tension and power. Aromas of lime leaves, sliced lemons, sea spray, green apples, oyster shells and flint. The palate is tense and nervy, with a strong mineral drive and strength, which will unravel beautifully over time. Floral and mineral in character, this chardonnay will reward time in the bottle. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

97 points - The Wine Front

Reserved, powerful, super complex nose, smoky, spicy, citrus oils and juice, into stonefruit, into an earthen aspect. This is for the cellar and this is super. Aftertaste brings grapefruit and apple skins, texture, mineral, stones. Outstanding Applejack Chardonnay. Intense and pure but with layers of character. Reserved power. One of the most characterful Applejack chardonnays I’ve tasted. No new oak. It’s not exaggerated or in your face but this just has all the extras.

96 points - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

No whole bunches and only MV6 from a south-facing slope at 400m, which has worked well in this warm year. A touch closed, this didn't need too long to open up, revealing a complex array of aromas including pure red cherry, sarsaparilla and spices such as clove and cardamom. Tightly wound, this is driven as much by the wine's very bright acidity as its superfine tannins. Give this some air and drink now or watch it slowly unfurl over time.

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Buy Giant Steps Applejack 2024 Chardonnay in Australia

Sourced from Yarra Valley’s Applejack Vineyard, this 2024 Chardonnay offers white nectarine, flint and vibrant minerality — a pure expression of cool-climate elegance. Delivered Australia-wide from Sydney.