Allegiance Wines Unity Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2021
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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This is an exceptional local cool climate Chardy. 100% barrel fermented in French oak hogsheads, 22% new, with ten months on lees. Pale lemon with flecks of green, this has a nose immediately offering complexity, and is a little bit exciting thanks to good oak integration, with a light, deft hand. We have notes of cashews, stonefruits, peaches, hazelnuts and more. Seamless and focussed on the palate where we move to more peach notes and melons with very good length. Drink any time up to 2030.
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.
