Allegiance Wines The Matron Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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From the cooler and high altitude region of Tumbarumba in NSW, which has proved so suitable for quality Chardonnay. The wine spent several months on lees and then a further period in French oak with a portion new. Dedicated to the Australian Bush Nurses, the wine is a gleaming yellow/gold hue. This is beautifully fragrant and well poised, taut and elegant. There are some lovely punchy peachy notes with figs, jasmine and stonefruit. Nicely balanced with good focus and a flick of well integrated oak. This is a wine of medium length, to enjoy now and for the next three to four years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
