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We found that some of the "reserve" pinotages that spent a long time in oak had that flavour. I don't remember coming across it in any of their straight cabernets or shiraz/syrah. The easier drinking pinotages (Leopards Leap comes to mind) do not have that flavour.

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Paul

Well this ties in with another post of mine - despite the fact that it is a wooded chardonnay they have no melolactic fermentation in their chardonnay. So it does not have that oily, buttery oaky taste that always reminds me of when I used to have to oil my cricket bat when I was a kid...

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Paul

We recently came back from a holiday in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Despite neither of us being chardonnay fans, we both loved the 2009 Chateau Montelena chardonnay. I was wondering if anyone knew of any chardonnays in Australia that would taste similar to it? The Chateau Montelena chardonnay is on...

Hi all - this is my first post on the Auswine forum. I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction of any Aussie chardonnays that do not undergo any melolactic fermentation.

Thanks - Paul