Wine review: Coppabella The Crest Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2013

Coppabella The Crest Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2013

$20–$26

Jason and Alecia Brown's lovely chardonnay relieved a poor meal at the Tumbarumba Motel. We expected fresh local food and wine by the glass. It's what the visitor centre promised, and what we'd enjoyed at a winemaker dinner there some years earlier. It wasn't to be, alas, but the chardonnay and a Hilltops shiraz took our minds off the food. The chardonnay, from the Browns' 70-hectare Coppabella vineyard, showed the zesty, mouth-watering fruit flavour of the variety grown in this cool climate, and fleshed out by use of oak fermentation and maturation.