Murdoch Hill Rocket Chardonnay 2024 from the high, cool Lenswood slopes in the Adelaide Hills is an electrifying, tightly coiled Chardonnay that rockets out of the glass with intensity, flint and citrus‑charged precision. This Murdoch Hill Rocket Chardonnay 2024 is very much benchmark modern Hills – powerful yet finely etched.

Aromatically it’s all grilled lemon, lemon pith, brown lime and white stone fruit, laced with struck‑match complexity, salted nuts, citrus blossom and a distinct oyster‑shell, wet‑stone edge. The palate is concentrated yet ultra‑focused, showing dense citrus and stone fruits wrapped in pithy phenolics, savoury oak, creamy lees and crackling acidity, driving a long, dry, saline finish that’s seriously moreish.

At the table, Murdoch Hill Rocket Chardonnay 2024 sings with pristine seafood, lemony roast chicken, beurre blanc fish or rich shellfish pasta, and it has the structure to age beautifully over the next 5–8 years.