I haven't seen a P&J wine for a little while, three years in fact. Behn and Troy have been super busy growing the business, importing Vermouth from Spain, setting up a wine bar on Stradbroke Island, kitting out the brand with some wicked merch (what other wineries have branded high cut boots?), not to mention nurturing their growing families, plus they've been dealing with a pandemic. Interesting times all round...
Hollow Bones is a different Chardonnay to the Paul's Range Chardonnay of years gone by. Still possessing some generosity and layered with interest, the fruit source for this is new too.
Grilled figs and barbecued peach, nougat and vanilla cream, a delicate lemon juice tang rides in the background before rising up late. A faint cashew nuttiness tucks in behind too. There is a surge of flavour early before it calms and washes through slowly - not dissimilar to the surge of a wave against a rock wall. A grapefruit tang just sticks and rolls on and on. A large glass beside some porchetta is the go.
Drink to five years+
91/100
Region: Yarra Valley
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