Giant Steps Chardonnay
- White
- Australia
- Yarra Valley
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 12
- Community notes
- 86
- Merchant offers
- 24
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 79/ 10086 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £24per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- Drinking window
- 2021–2029peak2021 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 134 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Chardonnay.
- Body3.4 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.3 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch
- Tree fruit · peach, pear, apple, green apple, melon
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, lemon peel
- Earth · minerals, stone, honey, smoke, flint
- Yeast and lees · cream, lemon curd, oil, yogurt, banana
- Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, mango, green mango, guava
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2017One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2025unit not stated
- 202478drinkersunit not stated
- 202378drinkersunit not stated
- 202280drinkersunit not stated
- 202195critic£24 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 201994critic£30 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- 201790critic£19 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
- 200686drinkers
- 200487drinkers
- 200287drinkers
- 200188drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2021
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2021
- peak, window 2021–2029
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £19 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
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