Allegiance Wines Unity Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2024
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- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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The fruit used here comes from a single vineyard in Tumbarumba which sits at 530 metres. The juice went into small format French oak barriques and hogsheads, 15% new, for a warm fermentation, followed by a further six months on lees. Just 1,908 bottles made. This will undoubtedly prove to be a very popular style, but it is in its early days and should impress even more in two to four years. There is an attractive yellow hue here, with quite distinctive aromas. Touches of oak but well handled, with notes of cashews, supported by citrus, peaches and a flick of almonds. This is from the big and bold end of the Chardy spectrum and will be ideal for a rich chicken dish.
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.
